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Chapter 2: Timed Morph?

The next morning a man with a lab coat and his right hand in his pocket stood before Alice's door. He was nervous, and some could now understand it was Jack, with the operation to retrieve Jones.

Just give the owner a shot, grab the Pokéballs, get Leafeon and Ditto and flee. Then send people to get the owner. He thought. I can't do this. I never attacked anyone... He rang the doorbell, and he heard Alice close in on the door.

The moment she opened it, he revealed a syringe from his pocket, pressed it in the back of her neck and walked around her. He walked around the house, seeing the Ditto train with Leafeon.

"My Lord… it's the Ditto… the world's only digital Ditto able to download…" He spoke softly. He wanted to walk closer, but Diglett made a surprising approach at his feet, making him fall to the ground with pain.

He grabbed for the single Pokéball he was trusted, and threw it out. Out of the Ultra ball came no less then a Typhlosion, trained and created for battle. For some reason it was pre-trained for this specific mission, as without order it attacked the surrounding Pokémon.

Ditto however, seemed to be used to this, as he transformed into Mech-Ah.

"What? You know him?" Jones asked.

"Know him? I am sixty years; he was here a decade ago on tour."

Like Mech-Ah he had the Returner, a mysterious device that retreats Pokémon to their Pokéball. After shooting he demorphed, as the transformation was exhausting.

"It's up to you. If he comes out… show him the power of a mutated Pokémorph freak thingy!"

"Old joke."

Jack got up and grabbed the Pokéballs of both the Typhlosion as well as the balls of the Ditto and Leafeon.

The Leafeon, Jones however was filled with rage and hit the man with a Hyper Beam. He was able to use a small ring, which deployed a small screen. This was a downloaded move Reflect, so he had enough strength to throw the ball of the Typhlosion again. Leafeon did an Iron Tail against the fiery beast's head, knocking him out.

"You are not getting away!" Jack pulled something from his left pocket, revealing a stun baton. He tried to close in, but out of nowhere an earthquake emerged. "What is this?"

The earth was shaking rough, knocking both the Leafeon as the scientist of their feet. Ditto, however, didn't feel a thing, and slowly woke up.

"Diglett! Help us out!" He shouted at the brown worm.

"Be back in a minute."

And a few seconds later the earth loosened beneath the scientist's feet, making both the man as his Pokémon fall into a cave.

"You have luck there is a river under here!"

"You mean the sewer… he is going to be screwed…" Ditto mumbled.

"Help out here!" Jones shouted at the others. "Don't forget she got something inside her. Ditto/morphmaster, can you enter her body and see what's going on?"

"I could… but it requires a few days of preparations… so no."

They waited, which they did anyway. Ditto started throwing swears at random people on the street while being a light bulb, which many found annoying. Diglett preferred to make them trip the moment they shout back.

Jones was more concerned about the health of ex-girlfriend/master. Yeah… he had nothing better to do. Ditto tried to… lure him outside for some fun, which he rejected.

"Don't be so worried. She'll get over it." He said.

It was slowly getting evening, and Ditto and Diglett went back inside and waited a few minutes before remembering no one is going to cook.

"You seen her long enough, tell me the ingredients and I will see what I can do." Ditto suggested.

"Use the cook book. She always looks into the large book ever there." Diglett aimed his head toward a large book, opened on a certain page.

Ditto got up on the table and watched the page, seeing what he needs.

"My guess is that half this stuff is made up. What's a "spicy herb"?" Ditto didn't bother because he saw this was for curry, and nothing he was looking for.

A few pages later he found the recipe for natural disasters, pure chaos and peace. None were edible though.

"Pokéchow… Pokéchow… here! But these things have no color." Indeed, the color was determined by the used berries, which Ditto didn't seem to get.

He jumped over to a small closet, marked "Berry". These were categorized on size, flavor and smell.

He grabbed one called; "Mixed" and threw it into a machine next to the closet.

"Press button to start creation." He was reading when he pressed the button.

The machine made a soft zoom, then a loud cracking sound, knocking Ditto of the table.

He got back up and noticed several blocks appeared into a bowl. Ditto grabbed one, finding it tasty, and then he threw some down into Diglett's feeding dish.

"Tastes good. But not as good Alice makes them." Diglett said.

Twenty minutes later, the Pokémon were done eating, yet Leafeon didn't eat at all.

The other two went up stairs, sleepy from… something. (AN: Just look back)

"Why won't you eat or sleep? She probably just got some sleeping stuff or something." Diglett asked.

"I'm not leaving her." Jones said.

"I'll ask Ditto to help get her into bed, just stop weeping. When will you be happy?"

The next morning…

"Yawn…" Ditto woke up in his bowl, seeing that Alice had vanished. "Did she wake up Diglett?"

"I don't know, there something hot lying next to me." Diglett mumbled.

"Could you see what it is?"

"Sure… if I could pull away the blanket!"

Ditto transformed into an arm, pulled away the blanket and found a Flareon I bed.

"OMG, she morphed like that mutated Pokémorph freak thingy!"

"Not touching it!"

"Okay…"

They inspected the bed, finding no clue of the human's whereabouts.

"You're right, this is an mutated Pokémorph freak thingy. Man, that's a mouthful of words." Diglett said.

The sleeping hothead slowly awakened, seeing Ditto's… ass in her face.

"AAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Ditto… SIGH… why are you sitting on her?"

"Because she's warm."

"You're right."

"Get off of me!" Alice yelled at the pink sludge on her nose.

Meanwhile, at the testing facility, which I will call Test Base so you know what I mean.

"Tell me Jack… why did you fail with the recovery mission? All I wanted was you to get two Pokémon. The boss will be far from pleased." Lisa said to Jack, who was sitting on a chair behind her.

"Well at least…"

Lisa stood up and turned around.

"At least is not enough!" She yelled. "We want results. Complete results. Something that shows it's worth keeping you alive!" She slammed with her fist on the table. "You are running out of chances of survival. What can you accomplish!?"

Jack looked down at the ground and said:

"I could apply the formula to the owner."

"Yes, I know. But you used the wrong amount. We are really questioning your life."

"What are you doing in my bed?" Alice asked Ditto.

"Same thing your Diglett does; getting warm."

"Hmpf, I'm getting something to eat."

"Well you better watch…" Before Diglett could end his line, Alice already fell down the stairs. "…out. You'd really think she knew it."

Ditto nodded. They themselves went downstairs too, just to find Alice in a mess.

"And I call this: The failed move."

"What just happened down there?" Jones asked from upstairs. "Where's Alice?"

"Down here."

Halfway down the staircase Jones asked who the Flareon was.

"Nobody…" Silence… "Alice…" These words made the Leafeon fall down the stairs as well.

"Got a name for this Ditto?"

"The Amazed One."

"Shouldn't we help them?"

"Why should I?"

"Because it's nice and you're the guy that can have arms."

"Whatever give me a second."

One second later…

Alice is on the couch with Jones.

"When will they wake up?" Ditto asked.

"You ask the guy that goes THROUGH the stairs? I can't even bump my head."

"Right…" Ditto watched them lie on the sofa. "Hm… what about some water?"

"Could work… he's grass so that should give him a boost. She's fire so it should shock her."

Ditto sighed and got some water, threw it over them and dried the couch, which was wet.

The first to awaken was Flareon, questioning his whereabouts.

"What happened?" She asked.

"You fell off the stairs and became a work of art." Diglett giggled.

"You talk?"

"Sure, what do you think you're doing? Thinking?" Ditto said grim.

"This has to be a dream…"

"AH! The stages of Pokémorph acceptance.

Denial. Person or subject refuses possibility of transformation.

Depression. Subject shows large amounts of tears.

Trade. Subject will attempt to trade lives with someone.

Fist. Will beat up random people

Irritation. Do not interfere with subject.

Acceptance. You get it.

Just so you know." Ditto explained.

"Isn't that the stages of being left alone?" Diglett wondered.

"Oh… yeah… BTW Alice, you are a Flareon."

"You don't say something that big with an insensitive tone."

"I'm a… a…" Alice started to twitch with her eye and neck. She also started to glow and grow larger. After the glowing stopped she was human again.

"Wow… that amazes me way too much." Diglett said in disbelief.

"What is going on?" Alice asked.

"I can explain these events." Ditto said. "It seems that the injected liquid was in such an amount it deemed ineffective. Or it causes random morphing. So I suggest… DRAMATIC PAUSE… a doctor."

"I think I'll go right now."

"Something I would suggest, if you random morphing was NOT random. Because if you do morph at completely random moments, how can you be sure to arrive there safe?" Ditto looked at her with questioning stare.

"That changes everything. That is why you used a pause, wasn't it?"

"Yes," Ditto claimed. "But I am afraid there could be… more… hormones. The moment you feel attracted to someone, morphing would be a problem. Also… you might love Pokémon."

"You talk like a scientist." Alice smiled.

"I advice you to… stay in a Pokéball. Because within one spherical prison, one is stored as light. And as most know light cannot change."

"Okay, I think I could live with that. But who will bring me there?"

"You still don't get it do you? Soon, I shall explain my history, for now… where are the Pokéballs?" Ditto asked.

A few minutes later.

Ditto has become a human, with Alice inside a Luxury Ball. They were only a few meters away from the doctor. Inside he walked up to the woman behind a desk, who told him to take a seat.

A HOUR later he went inside threw the Pokéball on the ground and said.

"You, doctor/research/scientist thingy, wait…" During his hasty speech the Flareon turned into a human. "You, scan this human!" Ditto himself became a Ditto again, surprising the doctor.

"I lost grip on the case. What do you mean?" The doctor said confused.

"This woman is suffering from random morphing moments!" He yelled raged at him. "Just check the blood or whatever you do."

Alice explained what was going on in short terms, on which the doctor responded with: "Hm, right."

"This is something I call: "Repeating Use.". It's a mysterious chemical effect when a certain amount of liquid has appeared. See it as… drugs or smoking. You want more, but you can't get it so your body pushes you. However, if the substance is organic, it will attempt to create it on its own. Like the growth of a body. I'm afraid that it is irreversible at the moment. I'll just need a blood sample and you can leave."

However Ditto noticed something weird about the syringe he grabbed. It was not empty; instead there was some strange fluid inside. Alice didn't notice him applying it but Ditto jumped into the doctor's face.

"Run Alice!" Ditto shouted. She did run away, and Ditto went out after a while too.

Back at home Ditto planned to explain his history.

"What was going on in there?" Alice asked him.

"That man… I saw him before… back in the old days…" He started. "They must have gotten there before us. They want something… not just the Leafeon, but I might be a target too."

Done.

What is Ditto's history? Why do you even want to know? (AN: Really, reply to this.) Who was the medicine man then? All are planned to be answered next epic Chapter. Why a capital C? Because then it looks greater.