Not much to say on this chapter, but please don't give me any stick about the medical part that will come up. It's just to show that Kei's body is changing but in a slightly more dramatic way then her pokemon, instead of changing she is becoming sort of invincible to all diseases and illnesses. If you keep reading you'll eventually find out why.

I will eventually go back over every chapter and tweak the facts of the pokemon world, I just have to get myself familiar with it again.

Please R n' R. I want to hear what everyone thinks of the story so far. Thanks for reading.

Chapter five: Brock of Pewter City

Pewter City was home to the most well known museum in Kanto, it studied fossils and rare rocks from Moon Mountain, the tallest peak of a small mountain range that Kei and Roary could clearly see from anywhere in the city, it was quite a pretty sight. Their first port of call was the Pokemon Center which was handily situated near the city's entrance. It looked smaller than the Viridian City Pokemon Center, and it didn't have an arena, though it was situated in a park which had the tell tale signs of battles. When Kei realised people were staring at them she wondered why, looking to where a young couple was looking she looked down to Bulbasuar who was walking by her left side 'Oh, yeah, forgot about that.' she thought to herself. Seeing a group of friends talking excitedly she wondered if news of her boys had spread from Viridian 'Shouldn't be too surprised I guess?'. She, Roary and the boys continued on their way and finally entered the pokemon center where Quill was most surprise to see Nurse Joy behind the counter, holding a bag of ice to her left eye. "Nurse Joy, what are you doing here?" she asked as their small group approached the desk. The young nurse looked up at them, "Wait a minute, you're not Nurse Joy." Kei stated, noting that this Joy's eyes (eye) were a bit darker than Viridian Joy's eyes.

"I'm sorry," the Nurse said "but you'll find I am called Joy. You met one of my sisters in Viridian City."

"Oh, that explains it." Kei said.

"It's a bit more complicated than you think Kei." Roary said "There's a Nurse Joy in every settlement, and they all look alike." Joy turned her head a bit more, since her left eye was covered by an ice pack, she couldn't see the young boy who had been standing on Kei's left. She smiled brightly at him, obviously she knew him.

"Hello Roary, haven't seen you for a long time."

"You too Joy, how's Jenny doing?" he asked. 'Jenny?' Kei thought.

"She's okay, it's all been rather quiet lately to be honest." the Nurse replied. A chansey suddenly appeared carrying a fresh ice pack. Joy removed her old one and took the new one, allowing Roary and Kei to see a nasty black eye taking shape on the women's face. Even the boys flinched when they saw it, they were standing on chairs on Roary's left so the Nurse hadn't seen them either.

"Char, charmander?" (('Are you okay, Nurse Joy?')) the kind-hearted Charmander asked. Joy turned her head to see the altered pokemon, at first, she saw nothing wrong, the pain of her eye was too distracting. Once the picture made it through the frontline of her mind she did a classic retake. She went numb and then turned to the trainers.

"They're with me Nurse Joy, don't worry, they're still classed as pokemon, only their bodies are altered." Kei said, coming to stand behind her boys to show the point. Joy still seemed a bit shocked, but in no way repelled by them, once her pain came back she remembered her sister telling her about a female trainer with altered pokemon was making her way over to Pewter City, she had said the trainer's name was a bit like Kay, or Ky or something like that.

"Wait a minute, you're Kei Danna aren't you?" Joy asked excitedly, forgetting her ice pack. Kei nodded "My sister told me to expect you, I've got a room ready for you and your pokemon. Roary, you're favourite room is available." Once the two trainers checked in by writing their names in a book on the counter Joy sat at, Joy showed Kei and the boys to their room, Roary knew where he was sleeping and went to his room to get Hot Spot the Slugma and his other pokemon settled. Kei's room was a big one, perfect for the boys and other pokemon to play around in. Once Kei deposited her travelling gear near the foot of her bed and watched the boys as they checked everything in the room Kei left, the boys following and they met with Roary in the main hall of the Center.

"I need to call some people okay, Roary?" Kei said seeing the phones near the desk, where Nurse Joy was back with another fresh ice pack. "I won't be a minute."

"Mind if I join you?" he asked

"No, of course not." Kei said, sitting down at one of the screens. Picking up the receiver she dialled her home number and waited for a minute, she was surprised when it was Misty who picked up.

"Hello, Kei, what have you been up to you little misfit?" she asked.

"Hi Misty, it's nice to hear your voice again." Kei said, smiling. "Say, where is everyone. Pid would normally be trying to get into the phone by now." Misty rolled her eyes a bit, remembering what happened last time Kei called and Pid was around.

"Your father's at work, your mother is at the lab with Pid and your grandparents have gone to see friends." the young lady said. "Speaking of which. Who's your young friend?" Kei turned and remembered that Roary was with her and introduced them.

"Oh, sorry, this is Roary. He's been travelling with me since Route One."

"Nice to meet you Ma'am" he said kindly "Pardon me asking, but are you Misty from Cerulean Gym?" Misty nodded

"How did you guess?"

"Your sister's told me they had a younger sister who lived in Pallet Town with her husband, and being married to the Pokemon Master wouldn't let you be forgotten for some time." he explained.

"You sound as if you get around Roary" Misty said

"He's very useful to have around, he's been everywhere before, would've taken me ages to get past Viridian Forest without." Kei said, obviously thankful of Roary's help. A tugging on her shorts came from Bulbasaur trying to get her attention. The grass type pokemon recognised Misty's voice and wanted to say hi, Kei helped him up onto her lap and heard Misty gasp quite loudly. "I think this fella wants to say hi."

"Kei, is that Bulbasaur?" the water type trainer asked, taking her hands away from her face.

"Yep, I guess you know of the accident?" Kei asked, as Bulbasaur waved to Misty.

"Yeah, don't worry, me and Ash were able to calm your parents down." the young women said, knowing Kei was apprehensive about talking to her parents. She waved back at Bulbasuar, Charmander and Squirtle, the fire and water types were waving their hands above the phone desk so Misty could see. "Hi Charmander, hi Squirtle!"

"Thanks, tell my parents I'll ring later, my money's about to run out. Speak to you soon."

"Bye Kei, good luck. Oh, say hi to Brock for me and Ash." Misty was able to get in before time finally ran out. 'Yeah, that's a point; I must go see that guy.' Kei thought, putting the reciever down.

"Roary, do you know where the Pewter Gym is?" Kei asked, helping Bulbasaur down from her lap and taking another coin credit from her bag to dial Sophie's number.

"Yep, I'll take you there, it's not too far."

Once they got inside their destination, it was easy to see that this gym was dedicated to rock type pokemon. The arena was full of huge boulders where rock types could easily hide and lanch a surprise attack when battling against other pokemon, some of them had the groves of pokemon claws marring their surface, giving the whole place a strangely eiree, uneasy feel. It was dark and apart from Kei, Roary and the boys no one seemed to be here. "Hello, anyone here?" Roary asked to the empty arena. At first nothing stirred and they were about to leave before a voice finally answered them back politely.

"If you're looking for a pokemon match I'm afriad the leader's busy at the moment." it was a male voice, relatively young and sounded somewhat shy.

"We haven't come for a match." Kei explained "I'm looking for a man who goes by the name of Brock? He knew someone called Ash?" Movement was heard and a young boy dressed in a T-shirt and blue shorts stood on top of one of the large boulders near them. Just as with everyone else they had met, his eyes turned directly to the altered pokemon standing at the height of Kei's tighs. It was Kei who had to break the silence. "I was told he lived here."

"H... he doesn't live here, here." the boy said, meaning the gym itself. "He lives in the house behind. If you'll follow me I'm sure he'd be happy to see you."

"Thank you." after climbing down from his vantage point the boy introduced himself as Tom, Brock's youngest brother, and then led them around the arena to a door leading to a huge garden with a large house situated at the end of it. There were several teenagers in the garden, a couple of boys wrestling, while a group of four girls were sat watching most of the teens move what looked like a large boulder from a sandpit, the boulder then moved on its own and turned out to be a rather old golem who had rolled into the sandpit for the shade a nearby tree provided. Tom walked on as the teens in the garden noticed the pair he was leading and more so, the pokemon that were following the pale haired female trainer.

"Brock! Brock where are you? You really want to see this!" Tom said ecstatically.

"What is it Tom? I'm a bit busy with the sandshrew!" came the reply of an obviously older man from another room in the spacious house. Tom began to lead them again and into what looked like the living area, where a dark haired man was crouched over a box, the paws of baby sandshrews could be seen every so often above the rim.

"Roary's back with a friend, Brock. Er... this is Kei Danna from Pallet Town." the man placed the box near an adult sandshrew that was probable the litters' mother. Brock then stood at his full height to reveal he wasn't the tallest of men but he seemed to have a good physique under his thick T-shirt and pink apron. '... ... pink apron?'Kei thought as he closed distance between where she and Roary stood.

"Nice to see you again Roary and a pleasure to meet you Miss Danna."

"Please, just call me Kei." Brock nodded and removed his apron, setting it down on a nearby table where a geodude was resting.

"If you're not here for a gym battle, what would you want from me?" he asked kindly, noticing that his brothers and sisters had come back inside from the garden and that something behind Kei really had their attention.

"Your name was brought up by an old friend of yours while we were discussing pokemon feed. His name's Ash Ketchum?" Brock instantly recognised the name of his old travelling partner and his guess had been right that the young lady had been in contact with the now renowned pokemon master, she had that look Ash had when he was younger.

"Oh yes I know old Ash. How is he doing? How's Misty?" 'What on Earth are my sblings up to?'

"They're both fine, I'm not sure if you know but they got married and Misty's going to have a baby soon."

"You're joking! Crikey those two couldn't stand each other at one time, they were always at each others throats when we were travelling together." he said, obviously amazed by the news but happy for his old friends none the less. "What about Pikachu and Tokepi?"

"Pikachu doing great and Togepi's getting use to the idea of Misty having a baby."

"That's good. Well then, pokemon feed, what kind of pokemon do you collect?" Brack asked, getting back to the point on feed.

"All types and kinds... erm, however, there's been a slight modification with my pokemon." Kei said, now relising that the teens were still staring at her boys who were hidden behind her and Roary.

"What do you mean?"

"You're going to love this Brock." Roary said, moving out of way and allowing the boys to pass. To say Brock was stunned was an understatement, it became clear that news about the boys had not only reached Pewter they had appeared on television and Brock and his brothers and sisters went into a frenzy trying to find paper and measuring devices.

"To think, I thought it was a hoax! But here they are!" Brock said ecstatically. "Kei I promise I'll tell you every one of my pokemon feed secrets if you'll let me take the first ever measurements of your unique pokemon, please, I beg you." Kei was quite surprised, surely the boys weren't that well known. Brock then proceeded to tell her that once news gets out that the altered pokemon from Viridian were indeed true there would be a frenzy of breeders and researchers trying to get statistics on them. Eventually, Kei agreed, it seemed to mean so much to the breeder that he invited her, Roary and the boys to stay for dinner; saying it was the least he could do for her letting him get the statistics on the boys.

"Do the tests again!" Tyson nearly shouted at the poor nurse as she brought him back yet another set of test results. She ran off back to the lab for more tests as Doctor Tyson made his way to Nada's office, hopefully she could make this a bit clearer. When he got there, he was sorely disappointed. "Have you discovered anything Hannah, anything at all, have they mixed the tests? Mistyped data? Have we got very faulty equipment? Anything!"

"Nothing, the tests keep coming back the same!" Hannah cried, her head fell in her hands and a tired sigh escaped her throat. "And something new has just come up."

"Hannah according to these tests, Kei's bone density is that of a twenty five year old man and her lungs have not only healed of the scarring but have also redeveloped their lining in record time! What can possibly be new?"

"... She's got unknown antibodies and friendly bacteria in her blood."

"Pardon, what do you mean unknown?"

"I mean they have never been seen before. They are either new strains of the ones from vaccines or completely different strains." Doctor Nada turned quickly in her chair, her face had the look of a very shocked person, mixed with disbelieve and awe. "Daniel, for a test I introduced some of Kei's blood to some skin cancer cells... " she paused, looking as if she was about to faint. Tyson urged her on gently.

"And? What happened Hannah?"

"Within three hours the cells were completely gone." Tyson choked.

"Dan, she has bacteria in her BLOOD that kills cancer. What scientists and researchers all over the world have trying to do for years Kei's done before them and she doesn't even know it." Hannah still looked worried, Tyson understood why. "Dan, if the top coats find out about this it'll ruin that lovely girl's life. They'll run test after test after test until she won't even stand another human being."

"Don't worry, don't mention it unless it becomes absolutely necessary." He took his fiancées' hands in his and kissed them. "She's going to be okay, we'll be there if things start to turn sour."

Despite the house being so big, with everyone sat around the large table ladling food onto their own plates from huge heaps of different food from pots and pans, Kei couldn't help but make a comparison to her aunts, uncles and cousins at her birthday party. But she had to admit it felt nice being surrounded by such noise and raucous again, all that was needed now was Pid. It was a round table allowing everyone an equal chance of trying a bit of everything, Roary was sat next to Brock, Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur had a table to themselves with Kei's other pokemon and with some of the gym pokemon, and Kei was sat next to one of Brock's brother's who had just reached his seventeenth birthday, he introduced himself as Richard. Brock had long ago finished measuring her boys and as he had promised, was now unloading everything he knew about feed to the young female trainer who sat opposite him.

"Pokemon are just like people," Brock stated "you have to discover their tastes. While some pokemon may like a very sweet feed, like a butterfree for example, one of your rattata may like spicy food. Once you discover your pokemon's tastes it's fairly easy to get healthy food in them. Berries are good enough for most pokemon as sweetening and you could add a pinch of curry powder for any pokemon who likes spicy food." Brock paused to eat some more his dinner and allowed Kei to get the information in her head before continuing. "As far as making feed yourself, for herbivore feed use vegetables fruit and always have a bit of pokemarket feed to hand as well. For carnivores, use a mixture of meat with only a small portion of berries in it, again, always has pokemarket feed to add it to."

"How did you start making your own feed, Brock?" Kei asked after swallowing the the rice in her mouth.

"I watched some cooking channels and thought I should try something new for my pokemon, about a month after that they wouldn't eat anything else unless I made it."

"I don't blame them," Roary said through a mouthful of vegtables. "It's not every day you get to taste food like this."

"Roary don't talk with your mouth full." Brock scolded lightly. Roary swallowed and apologised. It turned into a pleasant evening with Brock and his brothers and sisters. It seemed they knew Ash and Misty too and listened to Kei as she brought them up to date with the couples' history from where Brock had left off. She also told them about her accident in Viridian City and how Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and the others were altered when she woke up. Roary also told them about what he had got up to before he met up with Kei, it seemed he had intended to go to Pallet Town, but after meeting Kei had decided to return to Viridian and have another go at catching the bug pokemon that had eluded him the first time he passed through from Pewter. It was only after Roary stopped that Brock asked something very relevant to Kei, but had not passed her mind. "Kei, you understand I'm a gym leader don't you?"

"Of course, I was going to ask you if we could battle later, but I guess its a bit late, and Tom said you were busy anyway." Kei said. Taking her eyes away from the large TV screen that showed Roary and another of Brock's brothers' character in a simulated pokemon battle. "I'll move onto the next town and come back."

"Why not just battle me tomorrow, I'm not going anywhere and I'd love to see your boys in action." Brock said, his brothers and sister began whispering about 'their' front row seats while listening to Kei's answer.

"You wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it."

"Sure, but don't think I'll go easy on you or the boys."

"Charmander, char, char." (('Kei doesn't expect you to, like us, she wants a fair battle.')) Charmander spoke out for himself and his brothers. Outside, however, the ever vigilant ears and eyes of Simon watched and waited for his next command, but he was eager to see how the gym battle panned out. Personally, his money was on Kei.