C26: Okay don't expect one of my last remaining updates for all of next week because I have mock exams then (I think they call them that because they like to watch us squirm under pressure, either that or we're all part of some secret government conspiracy controlled by Charles Clarke's enormous scary red ears)
So I have to instead of looking through work I've done to prepare will sit in a dark warm room with my memories. OH GOOD GOD! I HAVE FUCKING EXAMS TOMMOROW! AND I'M SITTING HERE WRITING A CHAPTER OF THIS FIC! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?
Oh yeah the idea I mentioned last in chapter's authors notes will happen during this chapter when Gary is sucked into M's dream world
I'm not gonna kill off Loreli, that way I'll have someone for the sequel cleverly titled "Pokemon gangrene" which will sort of be a Nemesis style story
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Chapter 19: Awakening
Lance
I found myself lying on the floor of what could have been the reactor if it weren't for the lack of M and the horde of Pokemon that had been there before I blacked out. Loreli was lying behind me, still unconscious.
I shook her in a vain attempt to wake her yelling "come on Loreli, wake up" in her ear. It would usually be enough to wake her but she was in a world created by M. I let her lie on the floor, wondering whether she'd ever wake up again.
"She won't wake up" I looked up to see Gary standing by the far wall, but it couldn't be. I saw him die, how did he survive?
"Gary?"
"Well I'm not a talking goat am I?" smarmy as usual, it was definitely him.
"You died, out there with the Alakazam, what the fuck, how did you survive?" I was on the verge of hysteria, Gary could tell, a smile grew on his face knowing that he was in control now.
" I remember when I started happening" he began what was likely to be a long speech "Silph started with the very basic tissue regeneration, it was a medical breakthrough that no one had expected" that explained how he avoided death "by taking the cells of Pokemon and treating them to create new uses, but the virus discovered in doomsday was phenomenal, enough so to raise the dead" he wasn't finished but every word he spat was like poison to me, the way he was talking told me he hadn't joined the elite 4 to help people.
"Think of the advances Lance" he started towards me, so much so that I could see his hands starting to decay as the seconds pass, rotten flesh occasionally dropping. "and once dead, the monster becomes more powerful than ever, so what if the virus could kill Pokemon all in one" he stopped as his left hand started being eaten away at the wrist and eventually the bone cracked that the hand splattered to the floor.
"What if it could affect humans" he continued though his body was decaying every second "what if the pokerus could be used on humans" he reached me and but his right hand on my shoulder, I was too disgusted to move. His dishevelled face was now a blur of puce green flesh. "Eternal life" he whispered just enough for me to hear him. M was affecting him too badly, it was obviously a preliminary version of the virus that M could create, but Gary wouldn't die, even if his head fell off the virus created would prolong his life, forever.
I gave his face a light push and his neck came tearing apart at the joint sending his head flying off.
As his corpse fell to the floor I noticed the small monster the shape of a microchip levitate out of his neck and continue to hover in front of me.
A very early test
I heard M in my head with its inhuman mutter.
The very first test on humans made them wither and die, but now we have improved the virus
"What about all the lives you've destroyed?"
That is my purpose
"I'm here to stop you" I told it, knowing I'd have problems and I was confirmed, M transformed and I instantly knew just why it was so terrifying originally…
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C26: Bad way to end things for the week, but who cares, we see a last glimpse of Loreli's childhood next and Lance's final battle with M, then the escape, then the epilogue and then the sequel!