CHAPTER 2

Questions and Answers

Ace's P.O.V

Questions are running through my head. Who am I? Who was that pink-haired girl? Who was the person in front of me? Why am I here? But the real question was will my questions get answers? The woman has an excited aura and it's confusing me. I waited while she wrote on her clipboard while I held on to the warm blanket. It was soothing and so was the cream themed room but the walk here was odd; the walls and floor were metal. Then we went on an elevator, from what I gathered that's what it was called, it made sense (it elevates people up and down). She started to ask me to do some things that any doctor would do when giving a check-up.

"Okay let's start with your speech."

"Who…..Am….I" The words were weak but I felt more confident the more I spoke.

"You, to answer your question, are the leader of the Morph Squad, an elite team of crossbreeds of Pokémon and humans, and great job on speaking. Don't worry it'll become easier later on."

Now even more questions are buzzing in my mind. I try to speak again but no words come out. The doctor-like activities continued as she made me tell her English letters from a far-away panel, weighed me, and tested my hearing with different sounds. Then came the part I wish to forget. She asked me if what she was about to do hurt or ticked. She leaned in vary close then took her pointer and index finger and put them on the outside of my ears, and put her thumb in the inside of the black fur of my pointy ears and she started rubbing them! It felt so hot and uncomfortable, yet part of me said "YA THAT IS THE SPOT!"

Katherine's P.O.V

-20 minutes earlier-

To whom it may concern

My work with the I.P.A was a good way to make money, to do what I love most an an added bonus is that I can truly fulfill my father's dream of people and Pokémon becoming one! I was assigned to make a team of humanoid Pokémon crossbreeds; this proved difficult at first. But once I added my father's findings with mine, it showed me the formula I needed. Now the tenth and final member of the team would soon be brought into the world. These crossbreeds, or "morphs" as I like to call them, are altered so they have good hearts and they know normal things someone at their age would know. But that takes a day or so, anyway the reason I'm writing this is because...

as I continued writing my letter, the door for the room burst open as I was interrupted from writing my message. The one who disturbed me was of the lower ranked officers who came into the room saying annoyingly and repeatedly

"He's awake, he's awake!"

"Calm down no need to be scared. Uh, what's your name?"

"I was not scared that thing startled me sure. But it didn't scare me!"

"That thing is a guy, and he has a name y'know!"

"Well excuse me." he said in a sarcastic tone.

I told a different worker to prepare a room. Then I grabbed the clothes I made for him and a fire proof blanket I invented. My Flareon was sleeping with it in the corner. He woke up and stared at me lazily. He smiled as he followed me out of the room and into the main hall of the headquarters. As we made our way to the experimentation room. I had decided to name him Ace because it sounded cool, it was leader-like, and it was the name of my father. I walked inside the dark room and reached for a light switch. The lights were dim, but perfect for this procedure. I walked over to Mia the Mew morph who had been the first on the team. She had a nasty habit of watching the other morphs as they were about to be freed of the capsules. Especially the boys, with each one, a little crush, and some stalking but something told me this one would last a lot longer. I sighed as I whispered to her,

"Is he another future husband?" she turned to me and about yelled

"What's that supposed to mean! You think I like him! Just because I spend most of the time I trying to talk to him through my physic powers, it never works though, and…."

She kept ranting and looking redder by the second. Once she starts there is no stopping her. I just sighed and felt sorry for the weird and awkwardness Ace will experience in the future. But that won't (hopefully) take away from all the excitement and adventure! The capsule had emptied by the time my thoughts were done. He had formed perfectly! He looked tough, and kind, a true blue hero. Quite literally his hair and tail were blue, though I gave him the feet of a Lucario and the black fur stopped at about his calves. His crimson eyes were marvelous. I wrapped the blanket around him as soon as he said he was cold.

He stood up a little wobbly at first but got the hang of it fast and I led him to an elevator and we went up a few floors as I explained what it was seeing the startled look on his face. The room the worker from earlier was standing by was the one I asked her to prepare. She told me the insulting worker was still cleaning and was not happy about it, as we both shared a laugh I hoped it did not scare Ace. They are so fragile on the first day, a little jumpy to. The room was a calming cream color with a bunch of brown furniture which consisted of a brown rolling chair, a couch, and a table with four chairs, and a bathroom. I helped him to the couch as I sat in the rolling chair. Next I ran some basic tests: Speech, needs work but not bad, Sight, is excellent, smell, is impressive, weight, 80.2 LBS. Height, 5, 2. Age, at least 15 years.

"Just one last thing. Tell me if this hurts or tickles." I came over close to him and took the first three fingers on both my hands and placed them on his pointy blue ears and gave them a gentle rub. After about thirty seconds of no response I looked at his face. A dark crimson blush took nearly his whole face he was slightly sweating and his arms were shaking as he leaned on them, and his eyes were wide open in shock.

I'm not sure if he was uncomfortable or he enjoyed it, his fetchers told me mostly uncomfortable but a bit of enjoyment so I wrote that down. He regained his composer and looked away embarrassed. I smiled, I couldn't help it, technically he was not even supposed to be made (it was actually an accident let alone the team leader). But the team was not cooperating very well and then it dawned on me, since the creation process can be stopped I could make that Morph the leader to guide the team. I took action and selected the Lucario DNA sample and went to work. I hugged him and once again I could tell he was shocked and I whispered to him,

"Welcome to the team Ace."

Ace's P.O.V

Present

After the hug I realized we weren't alone, there next to her was a Flareon. His aura said that he really cared for the woman and she was very kind to him. He stared at me and he wagged his tail and said

"Hi there! Nice to meet you, my names Flare what's yours?"

"My name is…uh, I actually don't recall my name."

"Really that's too bad, maybe Kathrin knows your name!" he said excitedly.

"Who?"

"Kathrin is my owner and best friend! She's sitting in that rolly chair." She was observing the conversation I was having taking notes as we talked.

"Kathrin, so that's her name."

"Yeah, she's funny sometimes and a great friend, Oh and hey, speaking of friends do you want to be friends too it would be so fun! Please!" He said with a pleading face. I pondered it for a moment and didn't see a reason why not

"Sure, I guess?"

"ALRIGHT!" He jumped for joy and smiled from ear to ear.

She must have noticed that the conversation was done and my interest with the Flame Pokémon and she explained she had other evolutions of his kind. Flare interrupted and said they were his brothers and sisters. Kathrin then asked me to go into the bathroom and change into the clothes she handed me. I obliged and went into the room but Flare trailed close behind.

As I shut the door to the room I took off the blanket and it accidently fell onto Flare who was saying.

"Hey who turned off the lights!?" I laughed at his confusion as I was DONE being completely exposed so I slipped on some black pants and uncovered the confused flareon. He looked at me, and after a second, he knew why I hadn't uncovered him at first.

Next was the pair of blue shorts that went on the outside of the pants. It was weird at first but it just felt like it was supposed to go that way. Then I put on a blue long sleeved shirt, then a black t-shirt, finally I put on a yellow zip able vest with yellow fur around the neck.

"You look cool!" Flare said with an excited tone.

"Why thank you, and you're not looking to bad yourself." I said with a smile. He blushed and shuffled his feet awkwardly.

"R-really! I was recently brushed and stuff so…" He looked sheepish as I walked out the door as he followed close behind. Kathrin was studying me closely.

"It's missing something but what!?" She said, soon I looked behind her and saw Flare holding a pair of gloves with rings in his mouth, walking over to the pondering scientist. Then gave a nudge and she looked down and said

"Oh! That's what was missing thanks Flare." She gave him a good scratch behind the ears, and then he went back over to me and sat down.

"These are gloves that will help you control your aura attacks. And these rings are for close combat with opponents with good defense. But last and certainly not least, this necklace boosts every stat you have sharply (Quite literally). Be careful it's sharp at the tip."

I put on all the accessories and then she reached into her pocket. She pulled out a pair of clip on earrings that had two things on them that looked like Lucario aura receptors. Pondering how he recognized them so easily, she came behind me and clipped them on.

"There now the outfit is complete, and those mini aura receptors increase the power of your aura vision."

"Thank you Miss Kathrin, I'll take good care of them." She stared in shock and then looked Flare. The Flame Pokémon shrugged and trotted over to the couch and fell right to sleep. Kathrin shook her head and said

"That Flareon is always making friends. Truly remarkable!" She walked over to the door and motioned me over. I walked over.

"You'll be staying across the hall so go get some rest. You meet the rest of the team tomorrow! Oh, and just clap when you need the lights on or off." I was still puzzled about the whole team thing, but I let it slide for now I will take Miss Kathrin's advice and sleep.

I walked into my new room It looked nearly identical to the other room but it was a little larger and it had a bed and a closet, also a little side table near the bed. I took off everything except the shorts because it was a little warm. Folded them nicely and put them in my closet. Then I put the rings, necklace, earrings, and gloves into the drawer of the little table. Hopped into the bed, and clapped, and just like that I was out.

Sorry for the wait, Also sorry that this chapter (and most likely chapter 3) had no action at all. I'm going to take this time to thank lupyne for reading and reviewing and helping a noob out. (Me being the noob). Anyway next chapter coming soon! So stay tuned.

Next Time on Morph Squad

"Ace this is the team, team this is Ace your new leader."

"Say what! I' not taking orders from him!"

Lupyne I'm also borrowing that next time thing, it's good. ( If you don't mind, but if you do tell me!) OK I think it's time to say SM448 signing out AND HAPPY (late) 4th OF JULY!