Pokémon, The story of Surge
By someone who's seriously stuck for names
For future reference, from now on I will be writing in a different style. Why? Because this style is a lot easier to write in, and moves the story along quicker. But ~ will still be for pokémon speech. It'll be like: ~(Koratta)Something!~ or ~(Iibi)Something else!~ So if Lilandra were to say "I eat food" in Rattata speech, it would end up as:
Lilandra: ~(Koratta)I eat food!"
However, if the speaker is a pokémon it is expected for them to speak in their own language. So if Machisu's Raichyuu were to say "Iguana is a cool noun" it would be:
Raichyuu: ~Iguana is a cool noun.~
Also, if the speaker is communicating psychicly, it would end up something exactly like this:
Myuu: |Hey-o! Flareth! You ready? Let's go!!|
Lilandra woke up and found herself in a cylindrical glass container filled with a strange liquid. She was wired up by sensors to machines on the outside of the tanks, and various chemicals were being pumped into her body. She was stripped, but there were horizontal opaque lines on the container, for modesty's sake.
Nao walked in with a clipboard in hand and begin to examine the large computer along one of the walls. She flipped a few switches, and wrote a few things down.
Lilandra angrily tried to pummel on the side of her glass chamber, and found herself unable to move.
Lilandra: Hey! You! What's going on?! Get me out of here!!!
Nao jumped, and looked around at Lilandra hastily.
Nao: You... you're awake... You should still be... be asleep.
Lilandra silently fumed.
Nao: Um... you were meant to sleep through the experiment...
Lilandra: Experiment?! Is that what you did to the other girls?! Did they "sleep" through it and never wake up?!
To Lilandra's surprise, instead of ignoring her and going back to work, Nao lowered her head and stifled a sob. She turned around and pressed a few buttons on the computer.
Nao: I'm so... so sorry. Please forgive me.
Lilandra: What?? Hey!! Hold on! What is this ...experiment?? I don't want to die without knowing why!! You have to tell me!!
Nao turned slowly around.
Nao: I'm sure you k...know by now that the people here are from Team Rocket. Well, this is Project Flame. The goal is...
Nao was interrupted by a man entering the room. Lilandra recognised him as Taopaipai; the man with the Kurobatto.
Taopaipai: Well now, Nao. It would appear that our Flareth has awoken much too early.
Nao scuffled around, head lowered, looking guilty. Taopaipai ignored her, paying his full attention to Lilandra, who was very much embarrassed by it.
Lilandra: Hey, would you quit looking at me?!!
Taopaipai did not listen to her.
Taopaipai: Nao, the experiment will go ahead as planned. Her state of consciousness should make little difference.
He gave Lilandra a sinister smile.
Taopaipai: That is, I don't think it will. But who knows? We've never worked on someone who was awake. Nao! Start it now! I will be back soon to see the results.
As Taopaipai walked out, Nao dutifully keyed a sequence into the computer. Hearing a whirring noise, Lilandra craned her head upwards to see what was going on above her. The top of the cylinder opened and a variety of tubes with needles in the end were slowly lowered in.
Lilandra: Wait!! What are you doing?? You said you'd tell me what was going to happen!!
Nao avoided looking at Lilandra as she spoke.
Nao: The aim of Project Flame is to create a super powerful pokémon of human intelligence by experimenting with fire pokémon genes on a human subject... So far, no test subject has survived the experience. I'm sorry... I had no choice.
The needles hooked up to Lilandra as she gaped in disbelief of Nao's statement.
Lilandra (whispering): But that can't be true... Who would do such a thing?? Why...?
She slowly lost consciousness as liquids were pumped into her veins.
Lilandra had a very strange dream. She opened her eyes, and was in the room outside her cylindrical prison. As she looked around, Lilandra noticed that her sight was strangely blurred, as though she was looking through a warped piece of glass. Hovering near the centre of the room was a Myuu (Mew). Lilandra had to blink a few times to make sure she was really seeing it. She looked around the room once again, taking in the fact that while she was looking at the room from the entrance, her body was clearly still in the tube. Nao was in front of the computer controls, tears down her face as she monitored Lilandra's falling life signs. But as Lilandra took a closer look at Nao, she noticed that she was not moving at all. Nao wasn't even breathing! The tears she was crying were stopped halfway down her face. Lilandra turned back to the Myuu, who was the only one moving besides herself.
The Myuu was floating gracefully around the tank that held the motionless Lilandra, but it kept its eyes glued to the moving one. This Myuu was quite different to the ones that you would be used to if you watched the first pokémon movie. This Myuu looked just like Ken Sugimori's original drawing. Instead of being a uniform whitish-pink colouration, this Myuu had a pink tail and pink feet.
Myuu: ~You got got.~
Lilandra opened her eyes in wonder. Here was a Myuu, talking in its own language, and she understood it perfectly!
The Myuu blinked, and bounced in midair over to Lilandra.
Mew: ~You got got good.~
Lilandra: He-e-e-e? (like "eh")
The Myuu giggled.
Myuu: ~Those humans. They got you.~
Lilandra hung her head.
Lilandra: Yeah, they sure did.
She slumped down and sat on the floor.
Lilandra: It's not very good, is it?
Myuu: ~Oh, I don't know. But you get out very easy, I know.~
Lilandra: N...Nani? (what?)
The Myuu giggled again, evidently finding Lilandra's confusion amusing.
Myuu: ~I hear you're being a Flareth. I think maybe Flareth will has a powerful strong Explosion attack.~
Lilandra gaped. It had not occured to her that if she survived the experiment, she would have ample "firepower" to escape the labs. But... no, she shook her head.
Lilandra: Supposing I do suvive the experiment...
Myuu: ~Eto? You did not have realised? You has survived experiement.~
Lilandra: He-e-e-e?
Lilandra looked around. The room she was in hadn't changed at all; the person trapped in the cylindrical glass chamber was still her.
The Myuu flew around it.
Myuu: ~Did you think this room would show? It is only inside your mind. But I'm not. And I know you live. I have see.~
It widened its eyes considerably to demonstrate that it could indeed see. Lilandra was amazed. This meant that she wasn't human anymore, didn't it?
Lilandra: Whoah... But... but even if I am a pokémon, it doesn't mean I can use any attacks. I wouldn't know where to begin.
The Myuu laughed.
Myuu: ~But and of course! I will helping you! I'm pyschic! I will telling you what to do in your mind!~
The Myuu grinned wildly in a triumphant expression as Lilandra's vision faded.
When Lilandra awoke, she found herself back inside the glass cylinder. Her sight was somehow... different. Maybe it was sharper? All of her muscles felt very different too, and she sensed that she had wings, and maybe a tail.
Nao was standing in front of her, looking utterly mystified.
Nao: You... You're alive! Oh! Taopaipai, it's a success!
Standing beside her was Taopaipai, arms crossed and looking mightily pleased with himself.
Taopaipai: Yes, a complete success. I will go call the boss and inform him. Don't let her out, under any circumstances!
Taopaipai turned around to leave.
Taopaipai: And while I'm at it, I'll let the other Rockets know they've got a party to get underway. This is brilliant news for the entire division. No doubt we'll all get a healthy raise out of this.
He walked out the door.
Lilandra, remembering her dream about the Myuu, waited for her instructions.
Nao: Oh, this is so great!
Lilandra locked her eyes on her.
Lilandra: ~(Flareth)Do you really think so? I wonder what my brother will think.~
Nao: What? Did you say something, little pokémon?
Lilandra concentrated hard, and spoke in ningen(human)-speech.
Lilandra: Do you really think this is so good? I am wondering what my brother will do.
Nao: Oh... but... he won't know. You'll be working with Team Rocket now.
Lilandra: Working with? I'm sure you mean working FOR. And most likely treated as badly as they treat all other pokémon. Do you know, today was supposed to be the day that I began on my journey as a pokémon trainer. I guess I can hardly do that anymore, can I?
Nao: ...
Lilandra: But even with all that, I'm feeling quite generous today. So listen. You'd better start running, and don't stop until you're a fair distance away from here, because there's going to be a rather large explosion.
Nao: An explosion?!
Lilandra: Yes. You should start running now though. I won't be putting off the explosion on your account.
Her mouth twisted into a slightly mad grin, showing many sharp little teeth.
Nao backed away in terror, then turned and fled, shouting to the other Rockets to get out of there.
Taopaipai had just finished speaking to the leader of Team Rocket when he heard her.
He walked outside his office into the corridor to see what was going on. Nao's half-heard cries of panic had managed to get at least half of the Team Rocket scientists out of the building, and the rest were standing about in confusion.
Taopaipai approached the closest one.
Taopaipai: You! What's going on here?
Team Rocket Scientist: Well sir, I'm not really sure myself. Nao ran through here screaming something about an explosion.
Taopaipai: You'd better get everybody else out of here. Set off the evacuation alarm. I'll go check on the experiment.
Team Rocket Scientist: Yes sir!
Lilandra patiently waited for the Myuu to teach her the secrets of explosion when Taopaipai burst in. He did a perfunctory test of the systems in there before turning to Lilandra.
The base alarm started up.
Taopaipai: Hey! Do you know what's going on?!
Lilandra: Why? Would you like to know?
Taopaipai: What's that supposed to mean?!
Lilandra: Whatever you would like it to mean. I'd tell you to run for your life, but I'd rather you didn't. I'd much prefer you to perish in the explosion.
Taopaipai: Explain yourself!!
But Lilandra was silent. She could hear the mysterious Myuu's voice in her head.
Myuu: |Hey-o! Flareth! You ready? Let's go!!|
Lilandra inclined her head, and her eyes began to glow a bright blue.
Lilandra: |INITIALISING EXPLOSION COUNTDOWN...|
Taopaipai: Wha...??
Taopaipai backed towards the door.
Lilandra: |5... 4... 3...|
Taopaipai raced away as fast as he could.
Lilandra: |2.... 1....!!!|
By someone who's seriously stuck for names
For future reference, from now on I will be writing in a different style. Why? Because this style is a lot easier to write in, and moves the story along quicker. But ~ will still be for pokémon speech. It'll be like: ~(Koratta)Something!~ or ~(Iibi)Something else!~ So if Lilandra were to say "I eat food" in Rattata speech, it would end up as:
Lilandra: ~(Koratta)I eat food!"
However, if the speaker is a pokémon it is expected for them to speak in their own language. So if Machisu's Raichyuu were to say "Iguana is a cool noun" it would be:
Raichyuu: ~Iguana is a cool noun.~
Also, if the speaker is communicating psychicly, it would end up something exactly like this:
Myuu: |Hey-o! Flareth! You ready? Let's go!!|
Lilandra woke up and found herself in a cylindrical glass container filled with a strange liquid. She was wired up by sensors to machines on the outside of the tanks, and various chemicals were being pumped into her body. She was stripped, but there were horizontal opaque lines on the container, for modesty's sake.
Nao walked in with a clipboard in hand and begin to examine the large computer along one of the walls. She flipped a few switches, and wrote a few things down.
Lilandra angrily tried to pummel on the side of her glass chamber, and found herself unable to move.
Lilandra: Hey! You! What's going on?! Get me out of here!!!
Nao jumped, and looked around at Lilandra hastily.
Nao: You... you're awake... You should still be... be asleep.
Lilandra silently fumed.
Nao: Um... you were meant to sleep through the experiment...
Lilandra: Experiment?! Is that what you did to the other girls?! Did they "sleep" through it and never wake up?!
To Lilandra's surprise, instead of ignoring her and going back to work, Nao lowered her head and stifled a sob. She turned around and pressed a few buttons on the computer.
Nao: I'm so... so sorry. Please forgive me.
Lilandra: What?? Hey!! Hold on! What is this ...experiment?? I don't want to die without knowing why!! You have to tell me!!
Nao turned slowly around.
Nao: I'm sure you k...know by now that the people here are from Team Rocket. Well, this is Project Flame. The goal is...
Nao was interrupted by a man entering the room. Lilandra recognised him as Taopaipai; the man with the Kurobatto.
Taopaipai: Well now, Nao. It would appear that our Flareth has awoken much too early.
Nao scuffled around, head lowered, looking guilty. Taopaipai ignored her, paying his full attention to Lilandra, who was very much embarrassed by it.
Lilandra: Hey, would you quit looking at me?!!
Taopaipai did not listen to her.
Taopaipai: Nao, the experiment will go ahead as planned. Her state of consciousness should make little difference.
He gave Lilandra a sinister smile.
Taopaipai: That is, I don't think it will. But who knows? We've never worked on someone who was awake. Nao! Start it now! I will be back soon to see the results.
As Taopaipai walked out, Nao dutifully keyed a sequence into the computer. Hearing a whirring noise, Lilandra craned her head upwards to see what was going on above her. The top of the cylinder opened and a variety of tubes with needles in the end were slowly lowered in.
Lilandra: Wait!! What are you doing?? You said you'd tell me what was going to happen!!
Nao avoided looking at Lilandra as she spoke.
Nao: The aim of Project Flame is to create a super powerful pokémon of human intelligence by experimenting with fire pokémon genes on a human subject... So far, no test subject has survived the experience. I'm sorry... I had no choice.
The needles hooked up to Lilandra as she gaped in disbelief of Nao's statement.
Lilandra (whispering): But that can't be true... Who would do such a thing?? Why...?
She slowly lost consciousness as liquids were pumped into her veins.
Lilandra had a very strange dream. She opened her eyes, and was in the room outside her cylindrical prison. As she looked around, Lilandra noticed that her sight was strangely blurred, as though she was looking through a warped piece of glass. Hovering near the centre of the room was a Myuu (Mew). Lilandra had to blink a few times to make sure she was really seeing it. She looked around the room once again, taking in the fact that while she was looking at the room from the entrance, her body was clearly still in the tube. Nao was in front of the computer controls, tears down her face as she monitored Lilandra's falling life signs. But as Lilandra took a closer look at Nao, she noticed that she was not moving at all. Nao wasn't even breathing! The tears she was crying were stopped halfway down her face. Lilandra turned back to the Myuu, who was the only one moving besides herself.
The Myuu was floating gracefully around the tank that held the motionless Lilandra, but it kept its eyes glued to the moving one. This Myuu was quite different to the ones that you would be used to if you watched the first pokémon movie. This Myuu looked just like Ken Sugimori's original drawing. Instead of being a uniform whitish-pink colouration, this Myuu had a pink tail and pink feet.
Myuu: ~You got got.~
Lilandra opened her eyes in wonder. Here was a Myuu, talking in its own language, and she understood it perfectly!
The Myuu blinked, and bounced in midair over to Lilandra.
Mew: ~You got got good.~
Lilandra: He-e-e-e? (like "eh")
The Myuu giggled.
Myuu: ~Those humans. They got you.~
Lilandra hung her head.
Lilandra: Yeah, they sure did.
She slumped down and sat on the floor.
Lilandra: It's not very good, is it?
Myuu: ~Oh, I don't know. But you get out very easy, I know.~
Lilandra: N...Nani? (what?)
The Myuu giggled again, evidently finding Lilandra's confusion amusing.
Myuu: ~I hear you're being a Flareth. I think maybe Flareth will has a powerful strong Explosion attack.~
Lilandra gaped. It had not occured to her that if she survived the experiment, she would have ample "firepower" to escape the labs. But... no, she shook her head.
Lilandra: Supposing I do suvive the experiment...
Myuu: ~Eto? You did not have realised? You has survived experiement.~
Lilandra: He-e-e-e?
Lilandra looked around. The room she was in hadn't changed at all; the person trapped in the cylindrical glass chamber was still her.
The Myuu flew around it.
Myuu: ~Did you think this room would show? It is only inside your mind. But I'm not. And I know you live. I have see.~
It widened its eyes considerably to demonstrate that it could indeed see. Lilandra was amazed. This meant that she wasn't human anymore, didn't it?
Lilandra: Whoah... But... but even if I am a pokémon, it doesn't mean I can use any attacks. I wouldn't know where to begin.
The Myuu laughed.
Myuu: ~But and of course! I will helping you! I'm pyschic! I will telling you what to do in your mind!~
The Myuu grinned wildly in a triumphant expression as Lilandra's vision faded.
When Lilandra awoke, she found herself back inside the glass cylinder. Her sight was somehow... different. Maybe it was sharper? All of her muscles felt very different too, and she sensed that she had wings, and maybe a tail.
Nao was standing in front of her, looking utterly mystified.
Nao: You... You're alive! Oh! Taopaipai, it's a success!
Standing beside her was Taopaipai, arms crossed and looking mightily pleased with himself.
Taopaipai: Yes, a complete success. I will go call the boss and inform him. Don't let her out, under any circumstances!
Taopaipai turned around to leave.
Taopaipai: And while I'm at it, I'll let the other Rockets know they've got a party to get underway. This is brilliant news for the entire division. No doubt we'll all get a healthy raise out of this.
He walked out the door.
Lilandra, remembering her dream about the Myuu, waited for her instructions.
Nao: Oh, this is so great!
Lilandra locked her eyes on her.
Lilandra: ~(Flareth)Do you really think so? I wonder what my brother will think.~
Nao: What? Did you say something, little pokémon?
Lilandra concentrated hard, and spoke in ningen(human)-speech.
Lilandra: Do you really think this is so good? I am wondering what my brother will do.
Nao: Oh... but... he won't know. You'll be working with Team Rocket now.
Lilandra: Working with? I'm sure you mean working FOR. And most likely treated as badly as they treat all other pokémon. Do you know, today was supposed to be the day that I began on my journey as a pokémon trainer. I guess I can hardly do that anymore, can I?
Nao: ...
Lilandra: But even with all that, I'm feeling quite generous today. So listen. You'd better start running, and don't stop until you're a fair distance away from here, because there's going to be a rather large explosion.
Nao: An explosion?!
Lilandra: Yes. You should start running now though. I won't be putting off the explosion on your account.
Her mouth twisted into a slightly mad grin, showing many sharp little teeth.
Nao backed away in terror, then turned and fled, shouting to the other Rockets to get out of there.
Taopaipai had just finished speaking to the leader of Team Rocket when he heard her.
He walked outside his office into the corridor to see what was going on. Nao's half-heard cries of panic had managed to get at least half of the Team Rocket scientists out of the building, and the rest were standing about in confusion.
Taopaipai approached the closest one.
Taopaipai: You! What's going on here?
Team Rocket Scientist: Well sir, I'm not really sure myself. Nao ran through here screaming something about an explosion.
Taopaipai: You'd better get everybody else out of here. Set off the evacuation alarm. I'll go check on the experiment.
Team Rocket Scientist: Yes sir!
Lilandra patiently waited for the Myuu to teach her the secrets of explosion when Taopaipai burst in. He did a perfunctory test of the systems in there before turning to Lilandra.
The base alarm started up.
Taopaipai: Hey! Do you know what's going on?!
Lilandra: Why? Would you like to know?
Taopaipai: What's that supposed to mean?!
Lilandra: Whatever you would like it to mean. I'd tell you to run for your life, but I'd rather you didn't. I'd much prefer you to perish in the explosion.
Taopaipai: Explain yourself!!
But Lilandra was silent. She could hear the mysterious Myuu's voice in her head.
Myuu: |Hey-o! Flareth! You ready? Let's go!!|
Lilandra inclined her head, and her eyes began to glow a bright blue.
Lilandra: |INITIALISING EXPLOSION COUNTDOWN...|
Taopaipai: Wha...??
Taopaipai backed towards the door.
Lilandra: |5... 4... 3...|
Taopaipai raced away as fast as he could.
Lilandra: |2.... 1....!!!|
