Calypso: U IZ FOLLOWING. WILL LUV U FOREVERZ. 3 *runs off to edit previous chapters*
Aenrhien: *showers with cookies* He added me to Story Alerts! *happydances*
Alaxbird: *showers with Pokémon, nanites and solid diamond cookies* Y-you added me to A-Author Alerts... *dissolves into happy sobbing fit*
I'm going to make a 'credits' sort of thing as a last chapter, mind you people. It'll include a summary of the Author Notes, and be punctuated by song lyrics. :3 I've already decided the song; it fits what I've planned in the fic perfectly... And 'felled' is a word. It's kind of old-fashioned, and it means killed, dropped, come down to the ground etc. Example: 'The farmer felled some trees to clear the land for his crops'.
Chapter 7: Not EVOs
Rex's View
The girl led me through a maze of white halls. People in lab coats ran up and down the corridors. "It's like Providence..." I murmured. She tilted her head towards me. "What's that?"
I snapped out of my daydream. "...Oh, nothing..."
We walked. And walked. Turned a corner. And walked. Skipped around someone carrying piles of paperwork.
Suddenly, the girl stopped and opened one of the doors that looked exactly the same as all the others, except a small metal plaque was screwed to the door. It read 'Prof K. Rowan'. Pulling the handle, she waved me inside before entering and closing the door. There was a computer on an official-looking desk, and its screen was littered with a few programs. A machine hummed in the corner. Six of those capsule things rested in it, red sides up. They glowed a light yellow, and tiny sparks ran across their surface.
"Professor Rowan, something's happened that you might want to know about." Her voice rang in the near-silent room.
Bang.
Clunk.
Screeeee.
A nervous-looking teen poked his head around the corner. Small smears of black grease covered his face and hands. Safety glasses were perched on his forehead, like how I wore my goggles. A red beret was balanced behind it, and he was rubbing his head. "Ah, Dawn. Professor Rowan isn't here right now; he's... uh..." His hand leapt to his pocket to pull out a small piece of paper. After a quick glance, he said "He's at Lake Verity, there was a swarm of Surskit there. You know, Hoenn and all; he needs them for a Pokedex entry." At a nod from 'Dawn', he shoved the piece of paper back into his pocket and leant back down around the corner. "Now back to this stupid machine. Why isn't it working?"
My ears perked up, and I strode past an indignant beanie-wearing teenage girl to look at the machine. The boy was lying on his back under another large one of those things that held the capsules, and as I watched, he reached a hand down and grabbed at a flathead screwdriver near his left knee. I tapped his shin. "Hey, what's wrong with it?"
He shuffled out and looked at me. "Something's wrong with the system there. Every time someone tries to heal a Pokémon, it sparks and spits out the Pokéball. Not to mention the Pokémon becomes Paralyzed." I couldn't make head or tail of that. Maybe I could fix it... I voiced my thought. "Can I try to fix it?"
He looked at me like I'd just grown two heads. "Sorry dude, but you've gotta get a job before you can meddle with Professor Rowan's equipment." He slid back under the machine and a muffled "I'm his assistant and technician!" sorta settled the matter.
I walked back to a bewildered 'Dawn' and sat down on the floor, leaning on the wall. She looked at me in a strange way, and sat down in a small chair.
"So." I looked up at her. "What's your name? Why did you wake up in a spare room? And why-" she broke off. "Why...?" I prompted.
Her face turned away, and I could barely hear the "Nothing," over another ScreeeEEEEEeeeCLUNK from the maintenance man. My mind whirled. Did she like me? As in like like? I mentally slapped myself and faced the maintenance guy. Hmm... I closed my eyes and concentrated. My nanites automatically reached out to the machine over there.
It took a while because I wasn't touching it, but eventually I saw the workings of the machine, almost like a 3D blueprint. I waited for the blue lines to finish drawing themselves, and looked at the finished product... Holy crud, that thing was complex. Basically, it clamped onto the capsules with an electromagnet, read the data of the capsule, and edited that data so it was free of... cuts and bruises. Data can be hurt? It then saved the data and the electromagnet turned off, so they could be taken out. The machine, however, had a sort of bump... like a blob of solder on a circuit board, except it was on the programming. I mentally zoomed in on it. The small blob was a virus, and it ran a shock through the 'cleaning' process so the 'Pokemon' became 'Paralyzed' (as the techie guy had said), and reversed the electromagnet's polarity, which would have made sparks fly in between the two previously attached objects as they flew apart. I concentrated harder, and forced a few more nanites to fly out of me, across the room and into the machine. From there, I made them work with the man's tinkering and delete the virus before calling them back.
Nanites safely back inside of me, I smiled and opened my eyes to see a very interested Dawn. She squinted at me. "What're you doing?" I shifted my eyes from left to right. The maintenance guy fortunately saved me with an exultant cry of "Thank Arceus! It's fixed, almost by itself!" This earned a very, very suspicious look from the girl. I braced myself for a Holiday-style interrogation, but none came. She stood up and opened the door, poking her head out. She instantly leapt up into the air - an alarm started blaring its unpleasant BrrraaaAAAP-BrrraaaAAAP-BrrraaaAAAP to the world.
She rushed back inside and grabbed a capsule from the desk. "Arceus help us all, the Electivire's loose! Not the sedated one, oh no, the one that's on a mating season rampage and has a broken Drapion claw in its side! Out of my way!" She barged past me into the hallway, yelling "Move!" and "Emergency!" as the sounds of people running reached my ears.
"Indeed, Arceus help us all." The teen shook his head. He pointed a finger out the door. "You might want to go help; it's a nasty one, that. Who are you?"
I shrugged. "I'm Rex, younger of two sons." The other replied "I'm Lucas. Let's skip most of the formalities and go help." He re-adjusted his red beret and ran out the door, dropping the screwdriver and safety glasses in the process.
I followed suit. This 'Electivire' sounded bad.
It was. A hunk of the building had been blown off by something, as I saw following wherever Lucas was going. Turn another corner, run, burst through a door -
Outside!
The EVO!
Yellow!
Smack Hands burst out, I ran for the monster -
Lucas' View
Whirr. Thud.
A blur of red and orange shot past me, and I saw Rex -
His hands!
Big metal fists!
I didn't have time to think about it. "Leafy, go! Stop him with a Wood Hammer!" The Pokéball spun in midair, and the earthen-bound Galapagos tortoise burst out. With a "Tooooor!" It slammed its front feet into the ground, and two large roots leapt for Rex. One wrapped around the right fist, and one around his ankle -
Rex's View
I was jerked to a halt by two roots! "Van Kleiss!" I yelled, and slashed at them with the BFS -
Lucas's View
The fists changed to a giant sword. As in freaking HUGE - and he slashed at Leafy's attack! I couldn't help it - I yelled "You fool!" and told Leafy to try and pull him back.
"Rex! Let us deal with it!"
Dawn's View
Even before I could throw the Pokéball to help Lucas, he'd started to pull the strange boy back. I mean, metal fists and a sword? That's the kind of stuff you didn't see very often - coming from me, the girl who'd met the creators of the universe and helped stop Team Galactic from destroying it!
"Mamoswine, go!"
Rex's View
In a lucky glance, I saw a thing stuck in Yellow's hip - the claw! The Electivire!
"Rex! Let us deal with it!" Lucas' sharp yell pierced my skull. I looked back at him to see a GIANT turtle with plants on its back, feet in the ground, standing next to the boy. Lucas was waving me back madly, and I came when a tree behind me was felled by a bolt of electricity. No sooner was I back when the roots withered and died, and a woolly mammoth with blue rings around its eyes stampeded forwards and stopped in front of the Electivire. Lucas shouted "Leafy! Use Earthquake!" The tortoise lumbered forwards to stand next to the mammoth. Dawn's voice floated over. "Mamoswine, use Earthquake at the same time as Leafy!"
It was an incredible sight as the two giants reared backwards and slammed their front feet at least half a foot into the ground. The shockwave made ripples in the soil, but when some hit each other they cancelled each other out so a concentrated wave hit the monkey thing head on. It shrieked twice and fell forward, unconscious. The laboratory, however, stayed perfectly fine... almost like they could control the path made by the move.
Suddenly, two small red lasers shone onto the titans and they dissolved into plasma, shooting back to their respective owner-master-people. I looked at Lucas in disbelief. He looked at me with equal energy. Then we simultaneously opened our mouths and threw questions at each other.
"What are those monsters?"
"You made giant metal fists!"
"The thing they did, you said it was called Earthquake?"
"You look like you wouldn't know a Pikachu from a Luxio!"
"What is a Luxio?"
"Why don't you know a thing about Pokémon?"
"Do you control those EVOs?"
Those last two halted us both. I hadn't a clue what a Pokémon was, and he didn't look like he knew what an EVO was. "Hey," Dawn interjected, "let's go inside and talk to each other, one at a time, ask-a-question-and-answer-a-question style."
Lucas turned to her with a smile. "Sure, why not?"
I'd explained to them what an EVO was, what nanites were, what they did and about the world-wide war. In return, they'd told me what a Pokémon was, how they battled and how the 'level system' worked. I'd told them about my powers, and Lucas said "It was you that fixed the machine!" They'd told me about Special Conditions, or Status Effects, when Dawn's watch started beeping.
"Oh! Professor Rowan's back!" She dashed out of the room. Lucas looked at me, sighed, and shrugged. "She always runs to help him with his work. Not a clue why. I'll tell him what happened so he doesn't freak out." He stood up and walked to the door, exited and not a moment later there was this gruff voice growling through the door.
"What? He woke up in the spare quarters? No, Lucas, let Dawn speak - he WHAT?" That had better have been about my builds. "Let me see hi- " This guy with a MASSIVE moustache burst into the room and froze. The two teens stood behind him. Lucas grinned cheesily, thumbed at the guy and put his hands together, looking up at the ceiling. Yeah. I waved to the man. He blinked, straightened up, and drew a deep breath and said, "There is some explaining to do all round."
Yay! Chapter's over! :D Awesome Holiday action planned next chapter - The KICKASS type! Please continue reading, followers, and give me some ConCrit! ;D
~SK