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Takes place right after the previous chapter, in which we chronicled the first morning back, and the inclusion of Chamomile into the cool girl group.
This takes place at the same day the last three chapters took place, so the news of Marcy's transformation hasn't spread.
"So how does teaming up work?" Chamomile asked. "I've heard it's special."
Umbra nodded. "Normally it's that the teams are small groups, and then the small groups play each other. If it's a big person requirement, we're merged by the gym teacher."
Chamomile tilted her head. "Normally?"
"Sometimes we do traditionally picked one team on one." Umbra said. "Not today it seems."
"Ah." Chamomile said. "So I'm fourth?"
"Yup. Just her," Umbra said in reference to the Alexa, the Junior, "and the two Sophomores."
Chamomile smiled.
The seven members of the small clique walked down the hall together, Chamomile splitting up to enter the gymnasium from a ramp, as there was a small incline from the school floor to the gym. Chamomile soon reunited with her group, seeing the 80-odd students going in a few at a time.
"That's a lot of kids." Chamomile said.
"Not really..." Umbra said. "We're like the smallest school around."
"Really?" Chamomile said. "What about that other half?"
"That's Raised High." Umbra said. "We're the same school on paper but we don't consider it that."
"Oh." Chamomile said. "What do they use for a gym?"
"This one." Umbra said. "At a different time. There's stairs specifically for that."
"Oh." Chamomile said.
The Gym Teacher then arrived. He announced a welcome to all the new students, and explained how games worked around these parts.
Groups formed, mostly by cliques. Chamomile went with Umbra's group, and due to short numbers, Josh and Helen were also invited in.
There soon were eight teams, ranging from a group of seven, Chamomiles, to a team of fourteen. Each was assigned a part of the gym, outside the center, marked off with a small wall, to signify that a team could not go over that bit.
Umbra explained the other teams. There were the jocks, and the swim jocks, who would go for each other. Both contained eleven.
John, and some other nerdy kids formed the group of fourteen, this including Becky, who only for her small size, was strategically valuable. Normally with this big of a size difference, the gym teacher would break it up, but giving this was all the weak kids, they allowed it.
The fourth group was the rival for Chamomiles group, a group of pretty, but not that pretty girls, who all were rejected for mostly other reasons, with a size of eleven.
The fifth was a cobbled together group of whoever was left after these four that had vague friendships, who had a size of nine.
The remaining freshman banded together, forming a group of ten.
The seventh team was the band team, with a group of nine.
The eighth team also consisted of ten, consisting of whoever was left after all seven teams.
The team that Chamomile was on huddled up, the gym teacher putting up another set of prop walls, this time with a gateway inside.
"Let's just see what the other teams do first." Umbra said. The others agreed, due to the team being so small.
The swim jocks peered out, tossing a ball. It bounced, the little Becky running out to get it. A few balls got tossed at the Oshawott, but her small size meant that she didn't get hit.
The ball had returned to the nerdy group, nobody really doing anything afterwards. Two of the nerdy ones, Becky and Devin, were sent out with balls. Devin was quickly taken out, but Becky again dodging a lot of balls.
This caused many groups to wander out, making a large amount of outs inevitable. The swim jocks and jocks quickly took each other out, and a rival girl group member was hit pretty hard in the face by a rogue ball from a jock being the last one left. Becky got the honors of taking that one out, even though the range of her throws are a few feet at best. This made the jock quite angry, him storming off. The rival girl group member with the face injury was taken off the field, and left to be checked out. The cobbled together group went at each other, and the band team was taken out rather fast. Umbra was also out pretty quickly, and Josh, Helen, Chamomile, along with John in the nerd group, and three others. The eighth team also went at each other, soon leaving some nerds in their base, some littered Band and rival "betas" outside, and the trio in the "alpha" squad base.
Meanwhile...
The member of the "beta group" that was hit with the ball groaned. She was also a junior, and she often didn't like Umbra. She was a nice girl and all, but got into the group because of the common enemy.
"You okay?" The gym teacher's aide asked.
The teenager let out a small, weak laugh, as to point out that she quite wasn't okay.
"Well that's fine." The aide said. "You look like you can at the very least walk."
The girl nodded.
"Well anyways, I'm new here, so what's your name?" The aide said. "I'm Jess."
"I-I'm Shawna". The teenager said.
"Well hello Shawna." Jess said.
Shawna didn't feel too well after the hit, gagging a little bit.
"You sure you okay?" Jess asked.
"Y-Yeah..." Shawna said.
"You don't look like it in my opinion." Jess said.
The two of them eventually made it to the nurse's office, nurse being out for the day. Jess sat down Shawna on the desk.
Shawna seemed to be trying to cover up her mouth, which peaked Jess's curiosity.
"You chip a tooth or something?" Jess said. Shawna nodded, Jess leaving to go get some mouthwash, telling the student to stay there.
Shawna quickly got up to look at her new fangs, poking one. She yelped, the fangs being quite sharp. Lucky for her, nobody heard that yelp, as it was a rather quiet yelp. Next she noticed that hand she poked the fangs with was turning into a three clawed tan-furred paw. She didn't believe what she was seeing, and was too awestruck by the paw to notice the unique muzzle that was forming. Purple fur grew around her body, with the tan fur from her paw covering her lower arms and legs, and her front. Her other digits quickly turned to the same paw that her one hand was. She began to shrink a little bit, leaving enough of her lower back and rear exposed for a tail to grow without any real danger to clothing. She let out a feral cry as this happened, and something that Jess managed to pick up.
Just outside the door, Jess had heard this feral cry, unsure of why is was made. "Another Pokemon?" She asked herself, as she walked in, the just finished transforming Skuntank whimpering in the corner.
"Uh..." Jess said. "What are you doing here?" She said with an air of hesitation.
The Skuntank began to half ramble to herself about what happened, unsure of whether they could speak human language at the moment. They could, but there was no way for them to tell unless somebody talked back.
"Yeah..." Jess said, same air of hesitation as before. "I'll be uh... Right back..."
Jess then put the mouthwash down, grabbed the keys, and bolted out the door, first locking Shawna in.
Just a bit later...
After Jess came back, the gym teacher filled her in on what happened while she was gone, the Jocks getting themselves eliminated, as were the Bands, Alphas, Betas, and most of the nerdy group. The Freshmen were down to one, as were the Swim Jocks, a Junior female who wasn't really into the competition part and just wanted to swim for fun. The current winning team was the remainder group, followed by Becky's group.
Jess then explained in secret her problem. The gym teacher didn't seem to understand, but thought that Josh or Becky would. They called Becky down, as she was a Pokemon herself.
Becky seemed curious for why she was needed. "Can't a human do this?" Becky asked.
Jess smiled awkwardly.
"Trust me." The teacher said. "From what I know, you'd be perfect for this."
"Well okay..." Becky said, still confused and curious, following Jess.
Again slightly later...
"Okay." Jess said. "Don't tell anyone about this okay?"
"Fine?" Becky said, confused.
Jess opened the door, and shoved Becky in, closing it. "I'll let you out if you ask!" Jess said to Becky.
Becky was now very confused.
She then heard a whimpering.
"Hello?" Becky asked, still confused.
"Go away!" The voice yelled.
"Why?" Becky asked.
"Why should you know!" The voice responded.
"Well if I knew, maybe I'd understand." Becky replied.
The Skuntank peered out, the two of them making eye contact.
"Oh well hello there." Becky said.
"Oh um..." The Skuntank said.
"So what brings you here?" Becky asked. "Scared you'd stink up the place on your first day?" She said, assuming this was another Pokemon student like herself.
The Skuntank let out a half giggle/half whimper.
"I'll take that as a yes." Becky said. "Don't worry, it'll be fine. Can't smell much worse then pubescent boys anyways." Becky disagreed with this statement herself, aligning more with the perfectly fine smelling nerdier boys, but anything to make her new Pokemon acquaintance feel better.
The Skuntank sighed.
"What's wrong then?" Becky asked.
"I'd prefer not to say." The Skuntank replied.
"You got a name then?" Becky said, understanding somewhat.
"Uh..." The Skuntank replied, this would be her best time for revealing her transformation, if she wanted to.
"Haven't been a trainer's too long?" Becky asked. "Sometimes ferals don't have English names."
The Skuntank sighed. "I didn't get a name..." She said, faking being sad.
"You want a name?" Becky replied. "I could try and give you one. "How about Venin?"
"Maybe..." The Skuntank replied.
"I've got Katryna if you want a more human name." Becky replied.
The Skuntank paused. "I don't know honestly."
"I'll call you Venin then." Becky said. "You said you weren't really that non-feral quite yet."
The Skuntank nodded.
"Fine then Venin." Becky said with a bit of a smile.
Venin felt better. "Okay." She looked up.
"What?" Becky said. "Ready to go out?"
Venin nodded.
Becky knocked, as she could not reach the door from the ground.
Jess opened the door. "You two good?"
Becky nodded.
A bit later...
"Let's just sit aside for now." Becky said to Venin upon arriving at the gymnasium.
Venin nodded, curling into a ball.
Becky watched as the remainder group and her group becoming the only two left.
Eventually, the remainder group won, and due to it being a long game, gym ended up being halfway over.
Another period of time later...
Now it was the end of the day, and Becky and John were hanging out.
"I met someone new today." Becky said.
"Really?" John asked, curious. "Who?"
"A skuntank." Becky said. "Didn't have a name, gonna call 'er Venin."
"She mind this?" John asked.
"Oh she's fine with it." Becky said.
John picked up Becky, as to not have her trampled by bigger people, and walked out the door, wanting to discuss further when they got back home.
A/N: The next chapter is the one in which Josh discovers Marcy transformed.