Whoop, chapter four right here for all you people here~! Tis a bit shorter than the last three, but some of the foreshadowing from last chapter comes into play here, coming in the form of the marvelous Twins. Yay. :3
And, to add it, this chapter introduces an important (abet small and fluffy) character. Yesh.
I own neither Pokemon or Superjail.... I do own my imagination, though. 8D
"Yes, yes, for the last time, they're called Pokemon," I said as I backed out of the Warden's office, currently in my Ninetales form, "No; it's Poke-EE-mon. You have to accent on the 'e'. Okay, you finally got it? Good, I'm outta here."
I had just spent my second day of being the Warden's assistant by explaining to him what a Pokemon was. Even at the end of it all, I still don't think he got the drift.
Anyhow, as I trotted along, I began to notice that everything was starting to look a bit more familiar, as if I was finally figured out my way around here. I smiled at that. Hopefully now that the Warden thought a bit better of me, he would control the world around me so that I stopped getting lost, and that would mean I wouldn't be nearly falling off buildings again.
Finally, I reached the door to my quarters. At least, that's what I thought it was. What had been a simple brown door before now had some intricate moldings on the side. I narrowed my eyes slightly, remembering the Warden had said something about "liking what I'm seeing over the next couple of days". Perhaps this was part of that? Either way, I didn't pay much mind to it.
"Whatever," I groused, before pushing the door open and walking in. And the second I was inside, I stopped short, as I think I realized what the Warden was talking about. In fact, I was almost afraid I had walked into the wrong room.
The room itself was much bigger than it had been yesterday, and it had shed that cubicle appearance. The white walls were now a light yellow, an almost calming color. There was also a big bay window on the right wall, giving me an excellent view of some of Superjail's outer buildings.
"Oh God… wow…" I murmured, looking about.
"That was our reaction," I jumped, not having noticed that all my Pokemon were also in the room, Rex having just spoken. I walked over to them.
They were near the lounge bed in the room, which had also changed. It was much bigger now. I sat down on the soft lounger, and my friends clustered around me.
"How long has this room been like this?" I asked, keeping my eyes on the very apparent transformation.
"Not very long, I think" Rex explained, "I mean, I only stepped out for a minute, and when I came back the room looked like this. I couldn't believe it."
"Well, actually, I can," I said, "This whole place is always shifting."
"I'm just shocked by how nice it got," Kona said, lolling about on the lounge, "I mean, it's not so cramped anymore! It's such a step-up!"
I blinked for a moment, taking that in. It really was a step-up from what it had been. I bit my lip, thinking about how I believed the Warden had been getting me lost, and how when I came back from his office I found the quarters just fine. Finally, I came back to the conclusion I had formed on my way over here.
"I think the Warden adjusted this room because of me," I said. I received several odd looks from my Pokemon in response.
"What do ya mean?" Kona questioned.
"I mean, the Warden controls everything here. I'm fairly certain I've been getting lost the last couple of days because of him. But now," I gestured at the room, "I believe this room transformed because the Warden's view of us, me, in particular, took a step-up."
"I bet it's because of that "riot stopping" we did," Emily mumbled as she crawled on top of me.
"Riot stopping…" Rex said cautiously, giving me a look.
"Emily and I did some fighting in the mess hall recently and wound up stopping a riot," I explained.
"And so you think the room changed because that was something favorable to the Warden?" my Laironpressured. I nodded slightly.
"Kinda," I said, "You see, guys, yesterday I had to have a semi-forced meeting with Mr. Wonka himself. " That caught my friends' attention. I hadn't quite told them about my job yet. I mean, it only happened the day before.
"What happened?" Kona queried. I couldn't help but smirk to myself a little a bit as I savored the moment before revealing my new (kinda crappy) job.
"The Warden made me his personal assistant," I revealed dully, before flopping down on the bed. My friends murmured a few quips of shock.
"That sounds interesting," Kona commented. I looked at him.
"Not really," I said, "Especially when the guy I'm supposed to be assisting doesn't know what I'm exactly supposed to do. I mean, I the only thing I've done so far is explain to him what Pokemon are, and I don't even thin THAT went right."
"That's a bit of an annoyance," Emily replied.
"Nah Nyah Na Nyah," Hibiscus added.
"Meh, I guess so," I concurred.
"At least now the Warden doesn't totally seem to hate us," my Floatzel said optimistically, "At least, I would think he wouldn't. If he still did, there wouldn't be any need to upgrade our room to "suite" level." I pondered that for a moment, but then smiled.
"I guess you have a point, Kona," I said, "We should just enjoy this nice room now that we have it."
And I should be enjoying that my current job doesn't have any need to be performed to its fullest yet, I added in thought, and beamed harder.
"So… now what we should we do?" Rex asked, slipping off the lounge and onto the newly carpeted ground. I shrugged.
"I dunno," I responded.
Suddenly, there was an odd static sound that emitted from the top of one of the walls.
"Guys, what the hell was that?" I questioned.
"Oh, it's some intercom thing," Rex replied, pointing up at a small speaker in the top corner I hadn't noticed before, "I think it got there with the rest of the changes."
"Sounds like someone's trying to use it," Kona commented. I nodded, and eyed the speaker suspiciously. Sure enough, a moment later, the Warden's voice came on over the intercom.
"Hello, Dana~!" he chirped. I sat upright.
"What's up, Warden?" I called back. There was a brief pause, and then he came back.
"I've found something for you do as my assistant," he replied cheerily. I raised a curious eyebrow.
"What do I have to do?" I asked, "Serve you food on a silver platter?" I stuck out my tongue at the thought of that.
"Hehehe, unfortunately not," the Warden's voice replied, chuckling a bit, "No, it's something else. I've noticed there's something odd happening in Cellblock 46, and I'd like you to go see if you investigate it. Maybe break it up too, while you're at it," I blinked.
"You can't let Alice or Jailbot do it?" I asked the intercom.
"Well, I guess I could, but if you do this you'd be assisting me, and since you're my assistant, I thought you could do it," I could almost see him grinning widely as he said it. I rolled my eyes.
"I guess I'll go do it then," I gave in, "Where exactly is that cellblock, anyway?"
"Not very far," Warden replied, "It should be a little ways down the hall." I was already up and heading for the door, but I stopped about halfway to ask something else.
"What do I do after I investigate it?" I asked. There was another pause.
"Just relax, I guess," he slowly replied, "I'll be able to tell, you know."
"Oh yes, I know," I muttered.
"Good. Now, go investigate that stuff!" And with that, the Warden's voice cut out. I sighed.
"Well, so much for not having work to do…" I grumbled, "I'll be back, guys. Hopefully I won't get myself killed or anything."
"Good luck!" Konacalled optimistically as I was halfway out the door. I gave my Pokemona nonchalant wave as a response, and without saying anything, I left, once again out in the hall.
"Okay, so the Warden said Cellblock 46 was just a little ways down the hall," I verified, and began to walk, "Let's see if he's right."
Sure enough, I had no gotten no further then perhaps a few yards or so when I spotted a door labeled with a large "46". I grinned, reaching for the handle. Man, I love not getting lost!
"So, let's see what the damage is," I mused to myself, and thrust up the heavy steel door, looking inside. The second I did, though, I almost had to do a double take.
"Holy crap…" I muttered, as I watched dozens upon dozens of inmates ran in fear from what looked like a giant dinosaur-octopus crossbreed, which was sweeping up convicts with its scaly tentacles and eating them. Now thoroughly curious as to why the hell the Warden would send me to deal with this, I slipped into the room a bit to watch the action go down.
"Never a dull moment here, eh?" I said to myself, watching the carnage.
"We see you like our form of chaos," a monotone voice responded from behind me. I jumped, and spun around, and found myself face to face with two very odd beings. They appeared to be identical twins, both with long blond hair. I took note of their odd, spacey outfits. Suddenly, it all clicked into place.
"You must be the teleporting twins I've heard about," I said, remembering my conversation with Kona. I wondered if the Warden sent me here so I could meet these guys.
"Indeed," the first Twin said in a blank voice.
"It must be true," the second one added, his voice also expressionless. I nodded slightly, backing up a little.
"So, I'm guessing you guys are responsible for that thing?" I guess, motioning behind me at the rampaging dino-pus.
"It is our doing. We are the masters of chaos and confusion here, Dana," the Twins said simultaneously. I blinked.
"How did you know my name?" I asked cautiously.
"We know about everything that happens here in Superjail," Twin 1 said, "It is only natural we know of your presence."
"Well, yeah, one of my companions ran into you, I believe," I mused, half to myself, half to the Twins.
"We recall," Twin 2 said. I only nodded, trying to think of what else to say. To be perfectly honest, these twins were scaring me a little. They just seemed so out-of-place.
"Oh dear," Twin 1 suddenly said looking behind me at the dino-pus, "It seems the Octosauris getting out of hand." I heard a hideous roar-screech from behind me, and I decided not to turn around and see what he was talking about. I did, however, remember that I was supposed to break up whatever odd thing that happened to be occurring.
"Um, about that… 'Octosaur'," I said, "Do you think you could move it to someplace else?"
"Why would we do that?" Twin 2 asked. I tensed, briefly panicking over what these two might pull off it I got them angry.
"Well… um, I'm sure there's plenty of other places you could let that thing wreak havoc…" I stuttered.
"But we want to let it rampage here," Twin 1 argued. I could tell they were both getting amused over my bumbling. Finally, I just let out an annoyed sigh, giving in.
"Look: I was only sent here by the Warden to investigate whatever the hell was going here, and I did. I was also sent to break it up if possible," I explained, "So if you just move the Octosaur, you'll be helping me do my job, okay?"
There was a moment of silence as I watched the Twins exchange pleased glances, before coming back to me.
"Ah yes, you are the Warden's second-in-command," The first one said.
"Perhaps we shall move the Octosuar to a different area," the second one added, nodding to Twin 1.
"Yes, we shall," his brother replied.
"I'm not the Warden's 'second-in-command'," I said to them, "But it would really help if you moved that… thing."
I was ignored, though, for by the time I finished talking the two odd beings had disappeared in a flash of green light.
"Huh, they really can teleport," I thought aloud, turning around to face the Cellblock. The Octosaur was gone too, leaving a bunch of confused and most likely heavily injured inmates on the ground. I folded my arms, and nodded to myself.
"I think this counts as both investigating andbreaking up the problem," I concluded. By now, though, several of the prisoners were getting up, and I released that if they weren't locked up and they noticed me, things could be bad. Quickly I turned around and bolted out the Cellblock door.
"Now, back to the room!" I exclaimed as I jogged along. Hopefully the Warden would be happy I handled that so quickly. I didn't even have to get my hands dirty. Hell, maybe I'd be awarded with another upgrade to our room!
Soon after, when I was back at our quarters, I thrust open the door. Unfortunately, there weren't any other extravagant pieces or furniture or windows or stuff like that. The room looked how it had been before I left.
Ah well, can't have everything, I thought as myself I entered, catching my Pokemon's attention.
"So, how'd it go?" Rex asked, "Did you 'investigate'?"
"Investigated AND broke up," I replied, "Double whammy. And I got to see an octopus dinosaur crossbreed." I grinned, and my Pokemon stared at me.
"Nyah Nyah Na Nah?" Hibiscus asked.
"You don't want to know what it looks like, Hibiscus, you just don't," I answered, "Trust me on that." My Skittyuttered a small mew in reply.
"Well… okaaaaay… that's good, I guess. Now you don't have to worry about that anymore," Rex said. I nodded, and realized I should mention my other meeting.
"Oh, and I also had a little run in with some certain teleporting twins," I added quickly. Konaperked up immediately.
"You saw them?" he asked, "They're creepy, aren't they?!"
"Hell yeah they are," I said, "And they're even scarier when you talk to them." I winked.
"I'm just gonna nod and pretend I know what you're talking about," Emily said blankly as she rolled around on the bed. I turned and gave her a look.
Just then, the staticysound from before erupted, and I realized the Warden was using the intercom again. I smirked. Perhaps he was going to give me a reward!
"Oh boy oh boy oh boy…" I purred, rubbing my hands eagerly. Soon as I said that, the Warden's voice came on over the airwaves.
"Dana, I need you to come into my office," he said icily. I blinked, knowing that harsh tone couldn't be good, especially after I'd done what he asked.
"Um… is this about what happened in the Cellblock?" I queried slowly.
"JUST COME HERE!!!" Warden yelled back, and then the speaker was silent. I winced, before glancing at my Pokemon.
"I better go check that," I said timidly. They all nodded, equally confused and worried as I was.
So, I headed out once again. I ran out of my room and down the hall, following the path I had been down earlier. Soon, I was once again at the Warden's office.
"Let's see what the hell the matter is," I said quietly, and walked on inside. When I got there, the Warden's back turned to me, and I couldn't see what he was doing.
"Oh good, you're finally here," Warden hissed sharply, and I cringed again.
"So, what's the matter?" I finally asked, walking slowly up to him, "I didn't mess up my job in the cellblock, did I?"
"Oh, no, you did that perfectly fine," he responded, "There's just something I'd like you to… explain." I frantically tried to figure out what I had done wrong.
"What is it?" I decided to go with the most straight-forward question. The Warden didn't answer me, though. He simply turned his head to glare at me, before moving out of the way so I could see what was on the desk.
And when I did, I almost couldn't believe my eyes.
"Hey, Dana," the small, yellow creature before me said. I blinked very slowly, taking in the figure, with its tall, black-tipped ears and pink cheeks that defined the Pokemon known as a Pichu. I recognized it instantly from when I had first seen the creature, a while back, but now the only difference from when I had last seen it was a purple top hat, identical to the Warden's, resting on its head. If he wanted me to explain this, then I was clearly going to have a hard time.
It took me a long time to pick out words for this situation, but after a while they finally came to my mind, and I spoke.
"Philpe…"
CLIFFHANGER DUN DUN DUN.
Yep, meet Philpe the Pichu, a character who happens to based off a friend of mine. Name comes from a corrupted spelling of 'Felipe'. No worries, his issues will be thoroughly explained soon, from his hat to how Dana happens to know him. ;P
The Octosaur was a completely random idea I thought of while lying around half alseep.
...I get a lot of ideas that way...
Enjoy, peoples. And dont be afraid to review! They would be greatly appreciated and awesome.