Hello everyone! I firstly want to apology for the long time this chapter took for me to finish. I really hope you will enjoy this one and tell me what you think about it. I also want to thank everyone for their patience and all the Reviews. It really motivates me when I read how you like the story or what could be better. (Except for grammatical errors. That will never change.)
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A New World, A New Journey
Chapter 11 T'R'ouble at the Lab
As we came closer to the group of Pokemon (a Helioptile, an Combee, a Psyduck and a Marill with a pair of Azurill by her side) I could see a few other Pokemon running around or napping in the sun a bit further away.
"HEY GUYS!" Yelled Kitsune and stopped before the group. They looked to us and smiled friendly. As they saw Kitsune, their smiles widened even more and they came over to surround the Braixen and bombarding her with questions.
"How was your journey so far?"
"Have you seen any legendaries yet?"
"Do you eat enough?"
"How many battles have you won?"
"Guys!" Yelled Kitsune to quiet them down. "I thank you for the warm welcome. And I will answer all your questions. But first, let me introduce you to my teammates and friends." She said and waved a paw in our direction. We took a few steps closer as Kitsune pointed with one paw to Thumper.
"This is Thumper. He was the first one I battled and the first who joined the team." Explained Kitsune. The group gave a warm welcome to him. Then Kitsune pointed to me.
"This is Argon. We found him wounded in the woods. And after he recovered, he run from the center. I followed him and we got attacked by a Toxicroak. He saved me but got himself pretty badly hurt, as you can see by the scar on his chest." I was a bit surprised and looked down. I really didn't noticed the scar until now. The group oooed at me and gave me also a warm hello and a thanks for saving their friend.
Kitsune looked around as if she was searching something or someone.
Helioptile came over and said: "Your sister is not here. She got chosen by a trainer a day after you." Kitsune looked surprised, but smiled happily at the news. "That's good to hear. I hope her trainer is a good one."
Helioptile smiled and said: "From what I have seen, it's a girl with long, light brown hair and a cute outfit. She seemed really nice and I'm sure she will take great care of her."
As I heard that description I thought: "Light brown hair and blue eyes... wait a minute... could he mean... Serena?"
I felt a tap on my shoulder and saw Thumper looking at me worriedly. "Argon? Are you ok? You spaced out for a moment there." I shook my head and said: "No. Everything alright. Just thought of something from my old life."
"Do you mean your 'human' life?" Asked Thumper in a whisper. They still don't believe me that I was once a human. But I couldn't blame them. I probably wouldn't believe it myself in their position and without any evidence.
"Yes. But, that's not important right now." I said and dropped the subject before getting back to the group where Kitsune told them about her Journey in more detail. "And that's how I beat Violas last Pokemon." Kitsune finished her story as we came over. The Helioptile came over to us and asked if we would like to play a bit. I don't know what games Pokemon play but I agreed. We all played games like hide and seek, playing catch or just throwing a ball around that was lying around. It where simple kids games, but I had lots of fun like everyone else.
After we played for a while, Professor Sycamore came back with a clipboard and gestured for us all to come over. Our group and a few other Pokemon surrounded the Professor as he looked us over to make sure everyone was there and then asked: "How is everyone feeling?" We all said "Yes!" and he nodded and scribbled something on his Clipboard.
Suddenly, there was a loud crash and I saw a grey truck driving backwards into the fields. The other Pokemon scattered away and took cover to not get hurt. I stood still beside the Professor in shock at what I saw. The truck had a big "R" on his sides.
"That can't be... am I really in this episode?" I thought as I watched the truck came to a stop in front of us and two people came out of it. A women and a Pokemon. To be more precise it were Jessie and Meowth. The where shocked gasps from behind us and I turned around and saw a girl with long brown hair and a smaller girl with blond hair and a Dedenne sitting on her head. Serena and Bonnie.
I was still standing beside the Professor and didn't know what I should do. Should I try to stop them? Would that mess up with the episode? But before I could actually decide, Jessie already throw a cube with holes towards us and a net was coming out of one of the holes. It not only catched the Professor, but me as well. I was now pinned to his legs and couldn't move.
I tried to get out and look angrily towards the two Rocket members who came over to lift us into the truck. The Professor was also angry and said: "You keep your hands of the Pokemon!"
"And while you are at it, could you also let us go, please?" I asked in my best sarcastic voice.
Meowth looked surprised to me and smirked evilly: "Do you really think we would let you go, just because you said please?"
I shrugged nonchalant and said: "It was worth a try."
"Well ,that was your last try." said Meowth as he and Jessie throw us in the truck and got back in the front after closing the doors.
"So much for not interfering with the episode." I said with a sigh.
The professor noticed and said: "Don't worry, Argon. I'm sure we will get out of here."
In this moment, the doors opened and I saw Serena and Bonnie climbing into the truck.
"Professor?" Came Serenas voice.
"What are you doing here? Get out! It's too dangerous." said the Professor, but the two girls where already inside as the door fell shut. Bonnie tried to push the door open, but it was no use. As then the engine started and we started moving, they realized in how much trouble they got.
Serena tried to loosen the net from us while Dedenne tried to bit through it. Both didn't work. Serena remembered her macarones and used them to mark our way for her friends to find us. We drove for a few minutes before we came to a stop and heard the Rocket gang coming from the front of the truck to the backdoor.
As the backdoors were opened, James and Jessie saw Serena and Bonnie and started to complain that this weren't their truck.
Bonnie struck a pose and crossed her arms as she said: "Prepare for trouble! I'd say you bad people have finally met your match!"
Serena also struck a pose with one hand at her hat, the other on her hip. "And, make it a double crook catch!"
I could see how Team Rocket got angry at them for using their theme.
"Stop that! That's Copyright Infringement." Yelled Jessie.
"That is our prisoner. Get away from him." said James.
"You let us go now, or you're going to wish you had!" Yelled Serena.
Jessie clutched her head in pain and said: "What a pain! You must be a Twerpette! Out!"
James got a roll of sticky tape from behind his back and rolled a bit from it off while saying: "Or you'll wish you had."
With that they jumped in the truck and easily overpowered Bonnie and Serena. With that, we were now all tied up and at the mercy of Team Rocket. Meowth joined us in the truck. With him, he had a mini chalkboard. I already had an idea of what he planned to do with this. He then explained: "Look, pal, all we want is your Mega Evolution secret. Spill the beans and we'll let the bunch of you out of here."
He then unsheathed his claws and said with an evil grin: "But if you want to be a dope and say no...Hehehe..." He moved his claws closer to the chalkboard and scratched is claws slowly over the surface. We all could do nothing but squirm at the DIABOLICALLY sound he produced. These sound was like one of my weaknesses.
After a few moments, the Professor gave up and said: "STOP! Alright! I give you the data!" Mewoth stopped his scratching and came over to us and waited for the Professor to continue. "The Data is in my coat pocket."
Mewoth got the Memory card from the Professors pocket and they carried us inside and sat us on a wooden bank. "What are you doing?" asked Bonnie.
"Stifle your obnoxious Twerpish whining until our mission is complete." answered James. And with that, they turned back to their work.
"What do you think they are doing?" whispered Bonnie to the Professor, who answered: "Probably trying to use my Mega Evolution data for no good."
"Then... why did you give them the memory card?" asked Serena.
"I would have preferred not to. But... keeping you both save is more important to me."
I listened to their conversation while also thinking about an escape plan. Not much I could do with my arms and hands being bind behind me and my attacks would do anything good as well. I watched the three idiots working on their Mega-Mega-Meowth and waiting for the data to be uploaded.
Well, when I can't do anything in regards escape, I do something else.
"Hey! Meowth! I would like to ask you something." I yelled over to Meowth who looked in my direction in surprise with the others.
"Sure. What do you want to know?" He said and came over to me.
"Well, how did you learn to speak the human language?" I asked. It was something I hoped to maybe learn myself. Would surely be helpful if I could talk to humans again.
"Huh? You want to know how I can speak human? Why?" he asked confused.
"I think it would be cool to be able to actually talk to my trainer and other humans as well."
Meowth makes a thinking face and then said in a serious tone I didn't expected him to have: "Well, not every Pokemon can learn to speak human. There are only really rare cases where a Pokemon is able to learn how to talk with humans. Not even other Meowth can learn to talk like a human like I can. No one really knows how it actually works. But you can certainly try."
I thought about that and said: "Hmm... interesting... but, how did you actually learned it? Some kind of language courses or something?"
"Well, I actually did took language courses from a human school. I'm not really sure how it worked, but after some time of me listening, I actually could talk like a human."
"Hm... that's something I have to try then. Thanks for the info." I said with a nod.
"No problem. Was actually nice to talk to you. I wish you good luck with your language courses." He said and got back to the computer. The others in the room stared at us a bit lost by our kinda friendly conversation, but shrugged it off.
As they were distracted with their work, I could see Chespin sneaking around. I really hoped he wasn't a glutton like in the series... this hope was crushed as I saw him climbing the table to get to the macarons.
He, of course, got caught and fell from the table on some tin cans on the ground. As everyone were confused, I saw Ash, Clemont and also Calem running into the building.
"Well, well, well. Would you look at that?" said Jessie, "We don't have to chase our prey, since our prey comes freely to us."
Ash yelled: "Let our friends go, Team Rocket!"
Jessie got into position and begun: "Prepare for trouble, you're half right!"
James continued: "That is our name, but your friends are stuck tight."
After that two lines I just ignored them and concentrated more on our rescuers as they came over to us and started untying us.
Calem took care of the Professor and me while Clemont took care of Bonnie and Ash of Serena.
I saw Calems relieved look as he came to us and bend down to get us loose.
With a sigh he said: "Thank Arceus I found you, Argon. I was so worried as Kitsune told me you were kidnapped." He begun to cut the rope that hold us. "Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" I shook my head "no" and, after a short comfort hug from him, climbed on his shoulder as he freed me and continued with the Professor.
As everyone was free, Ash said we should all get out, ignoring Team Rocket completely as they had finished their motto.
"You can't just ignore us while we give you our totally awesome motto!" exclaimed Meowth.
"You are not going anywhere!" yelled Jessie. A "ding" sound let them look back to the computer and James said: "Alright! Now that the data has been loaded, we can catch Pikachu the modern Mega Evolution way. Get ready, Meowth!" said James and Meowth got under the sheet that covered the giant Meowth robot I remembered from the episode.
"What's that?" asked Ash.
"My guess? A robot." I said, which, of course, no one understood.
"I think you are right." said Pikachu from the ground.
Ok, maybe not 'no one'. James pushed a few buttons on the Computer and said: "Oh you will see soon enough. With the help of the Mega Evolution data, combined with our secret weapon, it's now Mega Evolution times two!"
Jessie continued: "Or, as we call it, our Mega-Mega-Meowth Machine!"
James activated the last data and started the machine. Clemont asked nervously: "What kind of machine is that?"
The fabric that covered the machine was thrown away and revealed a giant Meowth robot on a chain drive.
"Meowth, Meowth, Meowth!" comes from some speakers from the robot. I heard Meowth yell "Rock and Roll!" And the robot started moving forward towards us.
Professor Sycamore stood there and admired the robot: "Oh my. Marvelous! It looks really powerful!"
And Clemont joined him: "WOW! I know they are our enemy, but that's a super cool invention!"
"Guys! Snap out of it! This is not the time for you to be impressed!" Yelled Serena and snapped them back to reality.
"She is right. We should get out of here!" Said Calem and turned around to run. Followed by the others. I looked back and saw the robot crushing threw the small entrance and taking a part of the wall with him. I also saw Chespin with the macarons tripping and falling in front of the robot. Clemont saw it as well and turned around to get Chespin out of the way. I then lost sight of them, as I was a bit distracted by the giant robot attacking us.
The robot stopped and Pikachu jumped in front of us, with Ash behind him. Calem looked at me and asked: "Are you feeling alright for a bit of revenge, Argon?" I nodded before jumping from his shoulder and right beside Pikachu. Calem took his place beside Ash and they both nodded to each other.
"Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!" Ordered Ash.
"Quick Attack from you, Argon!" Said Calem.
I rushed forward and the energy of the attack surrounded me before I hit the robot... and bounced off without doing much damage. Pikachus Thunderbolt was reflected and did some good damage to Pikachu. I saw him lying there and asked: "Are you alright?"
With some groaning, Pikachu managed to stand up. But he was shaking from exhaustion. "That reflection must have powered his Thunderbolt up." I thought to myself.
Jessie stated proudly: "Do you really think, after so many encounters with your Pikachu, we wouldn't be prepared? Now, Let's make not catching Pikachu a thing of the past!"
James continued: "Let's talk about a mega-mega blast!"
The robot's arm shoot forward towards Pikachu. I was about to grab him, but Ash was faster and lifted him and run to the side. But he stumbled and fell. I saw the other arm shooting towards them and just reacted. I jumped at the arm with prepared an loaded Iron Tail and smashed the arm to the side before I stood protectively in front of Ash and Pikachu.
Ash looked up and said to me: "Thanks, Argon." I wondered how he knows my name, but remembered that, Calem called me that as he ordered the Quick Attack.
"Why is every twerp getting in our way!" shouted Jessie. Meowth tried to lift the robots arm, but it suddenly stopped moving.
The robots mouth opened and Meowth yelled: "What happened?! Where is the juice?"
We heard chuckling and looked behind the robot and saw Clemont and Chespin standing there with the power cord of the robot in their hands.
James yelled: "Turn on the Auxiliary power!"
"Alright!" said Meowth, "Extra juice, you're up!" The mouth closed again and the robot worked again. Clemont and Chespin came over to us and Chespin took place beside me and looked back at Clemont. He then said in Poke-Lang (It's short for Pokemon-Language. I just call it that from now on): "Let us fight together!"
Clemont looked at first confused, but then he seems to understand him and nodded. "Chespin! Use Pin-Missile!" ordered Clemont and Chespin fired his attack at the robot... with no effect.
Ash came forward with Pikachu in his arms and said to Calem and Clemont: "Let's try it together! Pikachu! Use Quick Attack!"
Pikachu jumped back to our side and said: "Alright guys! Let's do this!"
We nodded and prepared our attacks. This time, Calem decided for a Iron Fist. I charged my fist up and combined it also with Agility. I felt a bit bad for doing that without Calems order, but this was a fight for survival.
We charged the robot and Pikachu and Chespin bounced off. I was actually able to give the thing a fist sized dent in its armor, which made me a bit proud. But it was far from what we actually needed to stop that thing.
We prepared for an counter attack from the robot, but then, a fireball kicked the robot in the face and made it tumble before it jumped back on a dead tree with a man standing on a branch under him. The man wore an outfit, resembling the other Pokemon. A mega Blaziken.
The man ordered an Flamethrower and the mega Blaziken roasted the robot in one attack. The head of the robot was now open for attacks and our trainers didn't wasted time for this chance.
"Electro Ball!"
"Pin Missile!"
"Iron Tail!"
I waited for the machine to get hit by Electro Ball and Pin Missile first, before I gave it a blow with my Iron Tail. I jumped back and watched how the robot exploded and "Team Rocket blasting off again!"
"Some physical laws are just screwed here..." I thought as I saw and heard the classical 'ping' in the distance. Pikachu, Chespin and I cheered at our victory and got back to our respective trainers.
Halfway there, I stopped as I suddenly felt weird. Like a giant energy surge inside my body wanting to get out... I looked at my body and saw it starting to glow in a warm light.
"I'm evolving!" I thought happily. But that changed quickly...
I saw... everything... everything that happened in the last 26 years of my human life. My mother, father, sisters, friends... birthdays, Christmases, school days... my first Pokemon game (Red Edition) Trading Cards and other games I collected and played with my friends...
Then the time I found Luna. How I saved her life by grabbing her Tail, despite knowing full well it would curse me. Mew coming and teleporting us both to this world... and away from my home, friends... family... I would never see them again. They are gone. I am gone. They would never know what happened to me...
I saw my new life. Waking up in the Pokemon Center... the talk with Kitsune... the fight with the Toxicroak... Calem capturing me... me, training to battle and my first battle in the Gym... how I just accepted this life without even thinking about my home, my FAMILY again...
And then... I screamed. I screamed at the top of my lungs. I hold my head to try and stop the memories. They wouldn't stop. They were there, and they would always be there.
Tears were running down my cheeks and I closed my eyes. I pushed with all my power against the energy that tried to get out of me. It hurt like hell, but I didn't stop in hope of stopping these memories. As I fell to my knees and screamed, I felt someone's arms wrapping around me and pulling me into a hug.
I then heard a soothing voice trying to calm me down: "It's ok, Argon. You are safe here. I promise."
My body stopped glowing and the energy stopped to try to come out. As I felt a bit calmer, I opened my eyes and looked at my body. I actually stopped the evolution. As I looked up, I saw Kitsune's face with a calming, yet worried, expression. She was still hugging me from behind. I looked around and saw how everyone was looking at me with a worried expression.
Calem walked up to us and looked at me, not sure what he should say. Heck, I don't know what he even COULD say in this situation.
I just looked away and avoided his eyes.
"Argon..." He began but stopped as he saw me wincing at the name. A reminder that I was no longer human or in my world. I was an creature from a TV show that 'belongs' to someone. A sigh from my 'trainer' let me look up to him. "I don't know what happened there buddy. Or how I can help you. But I want you to know, I will always be there for you. And not only me. Kitsune and Thumper are there as well. Whatever it is, you are not alone."
I actually felt a little bit better hearing this from him. He pulled out my Healball and asked: "Do you want to back in your Pokeball for now to rest up?" I thought about that. A bit peace an alone time would be nice right now... I pointed to the ball and nodded. He nodded in acknowledge and returned me to my ball. "Your prison..." said a dark voice in a whisper before everything faded and I was back in my Pokeball. Calem put me on his belt and also returned Kitsune. I didn't paid much attention and just lay down to get some sleep.
So, as you have clearly seen, this chapter was worked into an episode from the series. Argon and co. will still have their own adventure, but I'm thinking to occasionally use an episode to let them cross pathes again. What do you think?