The last few days of her transformation are spent pondering the question. What would she do? What could she do? They were apparently part of her, bits and pieces that had fractured and split off within her forming their own identity. The question now is... what should she do?

The obvious answer would be to reintegrate them back into herself, yet she hesitates. Looking at black covered paws, and twitching her new ears, allowing her tongue to trace fangs that filled out her muzzle... and she knows that they're different.

The one she's met is a cyndaquil. Which's a far cry from the creature that she sees in the mirror. They're both small, but she is more canine with pointy ears, and a hard covering over the top of her head almost like the cranium piece of a skull. Shiny cuffs of glinting gold around each of her paws, two braces over her back. The division where black becomes blue and the star point tail. It's a far cry from the fire shrew that a cyndaquil reminds her of.

And... that means something.

What exactly it means she's not sure. But it's one of the biggest reasons that she pushes away the question.

What are you going to do about it?

Ignore it, she's not doing anything about it. Instead resorting to the tried and true method of procrastination. So she wanders soon locating the boys, her boys. And of course Obi who's lying happily in a beam of sunlight from a hole in the roof.

"Hey, look who's finished transforming!" Daniel cheerfully calls out upon seeing her before refocusing on the rattata across from him. "Good... because you're going to be practicing next!" he bares his teeth and Ronan grins in place before they both race forwards.

Sparks flicker around Ronan, and she can feel her fur stand on end. Flopping down beside Obi she decides to simply wait and watch. Thunderbolts slice through the air and Daniel races around just barely keeping ahead of the lightning. And he dives, jaws snapping down and onto Ronan, who twists, and almost gets away.

Only Daniel's jaws close on the rodent Pokéuman's tail. Bright light fills the air, a point blank thunderbolt in response and both participants are sent flying. Daniel twists around in the air and manages to land on his four paws while Ronan slams into the wall and hits the ground hard. He shakes his head and immediately goes underground.

Daniel howls, once, twice, before shooting to the side just as Ronan remerges, a ball of shadows glows at Ronan's tail and his grey eyes narrow as he spins around hurtling it towards the poochyena.

"Sorry but not today!" Daniel howls again before leaping through the shadow ball and snapping his jaws down onto Ronan again. Ronan squeaks before initiating a Quick Attack and dragging the poochyena along with him, abruptly halts digging into the ground and sending the dark canine straight into the far wall. Emerging on the other side of their field he leaps into the air gathering yet another Shadow Ball at the tip of his tail.

"Dodge this!" Ronan screams and Hybrid allows her ears to perk up as Daniel is hit head on and sent straight back into the wall. The small purple rodent lands easily on the field and Daniel shakes his head.

Teeth flash in a doggy grin and Daniel blurs. Slamming into Ronan's side with a Tackle that sends the smaller Pokéuman flying.

"Whoa... I'm feeling pretty Rattled." Daniel states shaking his head before howling again. He squares his feet and bares his teeth.

"Rattled... Hey that's..."

"[Improvement. Practice makes perfect!]" Hybrid sighs at the canine's interruption and returns her attention to the battle just in time to see Ronan leap out of the ground and slam into Daniel's side. Knocking the Poochyena out of the running, and straight into dream land.

"Okay, that was harder than yesterday... He's improving." Ronan says panting before looking over to the hybrid and narrowing his eyes. "Since you've finally finished transforming you should practice as well..." He flashes a grin with a certain glint in his eyes and she rolls her own before nodding. Trotting out onto what serves as the field Daniel picks himself up and shakes off the dust. The poochyena trots off and slumps down by Obi while she takes her place opposite Ronan.

How best to start?

Something simple. Something easy. Something that she's used before.

Fire flares and blazes in her mouth as she blows out the stream of embers straight at the rattata across from her. He doesn't even bother dodging, mainly because they didn't even get close to him. Instead falling short. She pants as the stream slows down and actually whines upon seeing just how far short they fell.

Oh well, that's why they're practicing isn't it. Growling she races forwards, and... her teeth feel like they're sharpening, hardening and she can feel the power gathering in her jaws as she leaps at Ronan. Jaws snap shut around his tail as he's just a moment too slow with his dodge and... It's amazing the strength that she can feel in her jaws(and his tail since it doesn't break under the force). He lashes out pulling the same Quick Attack, Dig trick off, but unlike Daniel she lets go sooner and scrambles.

Small blue electric sparks dance through her fur and she winces at the faint backlash from them, before shaking her head and instead trying something else. A dark sort of shadowy feeling, energy that gathers in a literal ball of darkness at her jaws, before she sort of tosses it down. And the darkness shoots out in a wave pulse around them hitting Ronan just as he remerges from the ground, dissipating and bursting his shadow ball.

It's amazing impressive and she's stunned.

So that's a Dark Pulse, there's no way she's going to be giving up that move any time soon. Racing forwards she can feel the burn at the back of her mouth, gathering embers that she flings towards Ronan who easily dodges them. Using Quick Attack to dodge before slamming into her and sending her back across the field.

Shadow Ball followed by lightning the she's just not expecting and she's slammed into the wall.

Slightly dazed she gets back up and rapidly shakes her head. Growling she flings herself back out there and races across the field. Blue electricity curls around her and... Ronan ducks to the side allowing her to slam right into the wall and knock herself right into the darkness of her own mind.


"Nice job genius..." the voice was sarcastic and familiar. Her eyes slowly cracked open to see the familiar unimpressed inverted cyndaquil from earlier. "You knocked yourself silly... And just made us look stupid because we're you... Oh and it took you long enough to fucking realize that..." he sounded cross, annoyed and just generally grumpy all at once.

She sighed and pushed herself up and he spun around growling at her.

"It's a good thing that the genetic fluctuation is currently stable you know!"

"T-The what?" she frowned at the statement and he huffed spitting a mouthful of embers at her. She flinched momentarily before brushing them away. They disappeared before even hitting the shifting ground of this strange place.

"Genetic Fluctuation... like an Eevee's. It enables their adaption, so that they can evolve the way that they do... and it's what allowed us to transform... also how many science books and documentaries have you read... because damn, Jane keeps lecturing the rest of us over them..." he grumbled before walking around her and glaring. "The point is though something is off with our flux point." he rolled his eyes "At least according to Jane-"

"Who's Jane?" Hybrid cut him off and he growled whacking her with one of his stubby cyndaquil arms.

"Pay Attention damn it!" she flattered her ears and backed down a bit as his back flared with flames. "Anyway... as Jane believes our flux point is a bit low... or high... I dunno I kind of tuned her out but anyway... Our flux point is off because we're all in the same body but representing different..."

"And that means what exactly?" Hybrid asked and the cyndaquil shrugged.

"I don't fucking know..." he said before looking away. "But uh... the theory is that trading between us would trigger a speed change between genetics... kind of like an evolution..."

"But it compromises our stability doesn't it..." the realization dawned slowly. "Our genetics are unstable because they're partially linked to how we... view ourselves..." He tentatively nodded and she sat down. It was a fair bit to take in. But still. "Okay, now will you tell me who Jane is?"

"Nah, because you'll meet her for yourself eventually... but currently I seem to be the nominated voice! Don't know why..." he grumbled before sniffing. "Anyway, Jane asked me to ask permission to test the genetic swap theory... so... can I take control?"

"That..." she hesitated as she stared into his pleading wide red eyes. "I'm sorry... but it doesn't seem like it would be a good idea..."

"Eh, worth a try though!" he shrugged before he turned and stalked away. "I'll go find one of the others, send them to deal with you..." he shouted back to her and she tilted her head watching as he left. That... that was not what she'd expected at all.

Slowly she stood back up and walked around Only for the ground to collapse out from under her and send her sliding down. She bounced a bit as the slide went back up and around more like a roller coaster before finally kicking her out into what seemed to be a library. Walking around she could see a picture on the far wall.

She moved slowly through the sea of books before she slowed able to see more of the picture... and... It was them? Maybe, her and the cyndaquil at least, and the other images were fuzzy, blurred out and indistinct... She stoped and tilted her head up the picture. It seemed important, like the library around her. Yet... she couldn't place either of them. With a sigh she puffed out some small embers that disappeared as quickly as she conjured them.

This was her mental space, her head, her mind. Yet there were others.

Which probably meant that they each had their own spaces. Their own specific areas... And... she frowned looking around the library again. Static computers, shelves and shelves of books, a bed... she stopped and looked back at the bed confused before shrugging and continuing. Plain walls aside the group painting, and soft fuzzy carpet beneath her paws. She still couldn't place it though, that was a lost cause.

But... this was definitely her area, her space.

Abruptly she felt incredibly tired. Like the weight of the world was pressing down on top of her. Every limb heavy and she struggled to keep her eyes open. Since this was her space she didn't mind curling up, eyes drooping. And... She slept.


She's awoken by a string of curses and an explosion. She's on her feet before she even registers it and racing down the halls, pulling her pack on and leaping to the side of a blast of water. It's Pokextinction, of course.

"What happened?" she shouts fighting to be heard over the jet blasts of water. "How did they find us this fast?" just after she finishes transforming in fact. It's suspicious.

"Don't worry about that!" Daniel howls boosting his fighting spirit before he slams right into a mudkip and sends it flying into a group of water type pokéumans in a weird mockery of bowling. "Just worry about finding a way out!"

"SPARK!" Hybrid shouts realizing what she can do. Daniel gives her a weird look just before Ronan races in with Obi right on his heels. The rattata has dancing electricity around him and she leaps back allowing the blue glow to surround her. And she dashes right through the water pokémon not pausing for anything until she's on the other side. She leaps, twisting around in the air. Taking a deep breath she rains ember down on whoever remains.

"[Dig! Tackle!]" Obi barks disappearing and reappearing as fast as she barks. "[BITE!]" There's a howl of pain from one of the uniformed grunts and Hybrid narrows her eyes flattening her ears against her head and growling before barking out a command.

"Obi disengage! I'm about to try something..." and she hopes that it'll work as she feels the heat at the back of her throat, the energy that gathers. And... "Dark Flare!" Embers spread out caught in the pulse and there's screaming, cursing and Daniel nips her tail to catch her attention.

They quickly flee through an apparent hidden passageway and don't dare pause even after they exit.

Eventually they do slow down, but only because they're starting to get tired and because Obi is complaining about being hungry. Sighing Hybrid slumps down and watches her canine companion poke at the can of dog food that she can't be bothered opening.

"So..." eventually Daniel speaks up his ears kind of flopping over his face. "Now we just make our way to the meeting location... and wait I guess."

"Will there even be anyone there?" Hybrid asks raising her head from her paws. Her eyes don't leave the form of their newest member though. She refuses to take her eyes off of the rattata with the grey eyes. There's just something wrong about him. Oh she knows that people can naturally have grey eyes... it's jut that something is off about it.

Something that's niggling and niggling at her, but she just can't quite catch the thought.

'{Grey eyes? Grey... Something about grey!}' the new voice almost startles her, and that's the moment that Ronan looks up and chooses to answer the question.

"Of course, if not Mischief, then Hannah will be there!" Those names mean nothing to her. So she sighs and plops her head back down. "We should rest for the night... we'll set off again after daybreak..."