Transformation: New Dawn
Chapter 6: revival
A/n: here's a critical chap in this story that will surely have repercussions in the Transformation universe…it's only one step in a path that will lead to a long awaited return. (For some people, it's about time) What that is…you'll have to read and find out…XD
This chapter is dedicated to Swack16.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Pokemon, Nintendo does. TurtlesandMonkeys owns the Transformation universe, the virus, and Mary. Swack16 owns John.
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"Duo! Duo!"
The two-headed bird ran with reckless abandon, seeming to flock around blindly, but both heads kept a steady view of where they were running, kicking up dust against the open plain. "Run...run…duo...predators…trainers…duo…get away...duo!" one head thought to its bobbling companion.
"Doduo Doduo do!" the other mind acknowledged, not even thinking intelligible thoughts anymore.
As the moon began to shine its highest, the Doduo sought a place of refuge to rest for the night. It soon settled on a shady spot on the field, a lone tree standing. The Doduo squawked and began to flock over to the tree, kicked the ground around it, and folded its skinny legs and sat down. One head began to close its beady black eyes while the other stuck its skinny neck out and began to survey the area, keeping a watch out for any sign of danger. It was true what they say about Doduo keeping one head awake while another slept…in natural causes. This is the first night in awhile that the Doduo was able to do this, the last night being a forced slumber for both heads. While the fairer head began to slumber away, the more alert one kept its head up, ever vigilant.
The Doduo kept up its evening watch, while its slumbering companion began to dream.
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They were in a waiting room of some sort, the walls a sort of pale green. She sat on a bench, swinging her legs as she waited. Across her, dressed in a dress up green sweater and black shorts was a brown haired boy, about 6 or 7, his arms behind him as he made a motion like imaginary ice skating on an ice rink, his eyes to the sky as he hummed. It made her smile while they waited. She was uncomfortable in her light green dress with lace around the sleeves and the edge of the skirt. She would rather wear pants or something comfortable, but her mom made her wear these sorts of dresses, and although she liked to dress up, there were times when she couldn't stand still in a dress. Her blonde hair was down but straight, a black bow on her head. She looked to her brother.
"All right Timmy, that's enough." She smiled. "Daddy's coming."
Duo, duo, duo, duo…Timmy…Duo...Doduo…daddy…
The slumbering mind was trying to comprehend why such words would enter its simple frame. They were not its species. Little did it know, its thoughts affected the mind of the other head, stirring a memory…
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The one keeping watch had a sudden vision.
There was a little boy playing with a Dratini, an older black haired boy standing next to him. They too were in a waiting room, a hallway in a hospital. He had a look of worry but tried to keep a calm face for his little cousin. A man walked out of a room. He rubbed the little boy's black hair. "Hey sport." His smile looks forced. "Hiya Uncle Roger." The little boy smiled. His older cousin stood up. "Dad, Uncle…how is he?" He stood up. Uncle Roger looked to John with uncertain eyes and back to his son. "He's… doing fine…" A woman came out of the room, eyes red with tears…
The bird squawked loudly to the night and shook itself. It didn't want to remember that day…
"Kou…is it?"
She somberly nodded. "It's time." His cousin stood up. "Auntie Kou, do you want me to take…"He paused and looked at his cousin, still playing with his Dratini before leaning in to whisper in his aunt's ear. "Do you want me to take Johnny somewhere?" She shook her head. "Not yet, he wants to see John…before he goes." his cousin nodded and Kou put on a sad smile to her son. "Johnny…daddy wants to see you..."
"Ok mommy!"
There was his…father…that was the word, father. He was strapped to all these wires, lying in a bed, a machine beeping next to him. He looked to him. "Daddy, you wanted to see me?" The little boy asked. All his father could do was smile. He then closed his eyes and stroked the little boy's hair.
"My…little…Shou hai…John…"
He then dropped his hand as the machine next to him droned in a long beep. The little boy, John, began to shake his father's hand. "Daddy? Daddy! Daddy, please wake up." His mother came with uncle Roger. "Mommy, why he no wake up?" His mother then tearfully pushed him out the room and closed the door.
Ryan was there with his Dratini, looking down. "Is…is Uncle...did he go to sleep?" "Daddy just looked at me and smiled before he go night night." Ryan looked down. "Well at least you…"He wanted to break but tried to stay strong. "At least you brought him a moment of peace." He then hugged John and John only smiled. "I'm thirsty…I'd like a Sody." Ryan nodded, trying not to show his tears. "Yeah, let's go for a soda…" He wiped his face with his elbow and they went down the stairs, not hearing the weeping begging in the room…
"Duo! Duo! Duo…Da…da!" The bird shuddered as the memory persisted.
They were in a cold lonely room…everyone was dressed in black, either stone faced or weeping. Little John just sat as he saw his father, sleeping in a large box on the slab that led to somewhere. "Why he still sleeping?" His mother was lost for words. One of his father's friends went to John and lifted him up and down, like he used to do when his father was awake. Little John only enjoyed it, laughing. After everyone paid their respects, that's when the confusion began. John watched as they closed the box with his father and began to take him down somewhere. He looked to his mother. "Mama, what are they doing?" he asked with naivety and a little worry. His eyes widened with fear when he saw a little door open up with a burning blue fire inside and they began to slowly push the silver casket in. "Wait what are they doing?! Why are they pushing him into the fire?!" They continued to push him in. "No, Daddy!" He called out with an arm reached out as the box began to close in on the inferno. He felt an arm around him and saw his mom holding him back. "No! Daddy! Why is he going there? He's still sleeping! He'll never get out!"
His mother only hushed him while he struggled to break free. Maybe if he could make it, he could wake his father up and save him from the oven. "Let me go!" He tried to break free, but all he could do however is watch and scream with tears as he struggled and saw his father go into the fire, the flames devouring the box." DAAADYYYYYY!"
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"Du-DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" the bird shrieked out as it suddenly began to convulse the other head snapping awake and squawking as well, a shock hitting both their cores. Then suddenly, both slumped as both fell into a forced slumber.
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...Where…where am I…?
He didn't know where he was…everything was black. He didn't know how, but he was awake in this place…but he didn't know who he was. He then heard a weak breath and looked up and gasped. There was some one up there…no…two people up there.
There was a blond headed girl, not the one he dreamed about, but the one that was with him. She was suspended in the air, almost completely transparent, her face obscured in shadow. Her right side was regular, but on the left side of her ghostly body it was all twisted and merged with another ghost…a black haired boy, his face also obscured by shadow. His right arm and her left arm were connected and jutted out from each other's torsos. Her left leg and his right leg were twisted and fused into one joint with an uneven amount of toes.
What is that?! Who are they?
He heard a squawk and saw something step out of the darkness. It was a bird with two heads and brown feathers, their black necks bobbling, their beady eyes focused on him. But who was he?
The black world around them suddenly sprouted out images, all gray and hazy, a light mist obscuring them. One image that stuck out was a blond girl, much like the one hanging over him, holding a little silver fox like creature.
An Eevee…
He closed his eyes and opened them to see that he had form, he looked at his silver paws and turned and saw his fluffy silver tail.
The Doduo then rushed at him with beaks bared and began to peck at him, the beaks piercing him, making him feel like a part of him was fading away. He looked to the hanging figures and saw that the boy and girl began to grow even more ghostly. Several images began to fade away into obscurity.
No…got to fight it… got to win…
The silver Eevee then began to growl and tackle at the Doduo, the bird squawking. Several images then began to become clearer, breaching the fog.
A blond haired girl hugged others in a circle…she blushed at….
The Eevee tackled again and the name became clear.
She hugged Chad…
The Doduo then began to squawk, its eyes suddenly sharpening and glowing red. It released a penetrating cry and several images began to mount themselves against that memory.
There was a teenage boy with greenish blue hair and a blond girl next to him.
"Hi, we're here to have some pokemon of ours watched…" She went to the two when the captured her in a net… She woke up and they had uniforms with a beg red R on their chests…the Togekiss looked all wrong and sailed at her…she felt pain…watched as white down spread across her body…watched her body change shape and her hands became large wings, like the Togekiss...she was in a dark place...cold and alone…
The floating girl then began to shudder, as if she didn't want to see that memory again and began to fade more. The Doduo seemed to increase in size from her despair and loomed over the Eevee.
The Eevee dodged an attack from the Doduo and began to run through the mist, looking for a memory to support it.
They were playing in the snow…he was on the shoulders of his father, laughing, tossing snowballs at Ryan and his mother…
The Eevee then touched the image and it glittered into sparkles and surrounded him, making him feel stronger, he then leapt at the Doduo and began to bite on its neck. The bird squawked loudly. It shook the Eevee off and he looked up to see that the memory made the two solid enough, they were breathing now.
The Doduo then swallowed an image and a small slit of a hole then appeared at the Doduo's center and something fell out. The mass turned into a little girl with he magenta hair in pigtails and markings in her skin. She giggled at him. "I'm going to make you cute…" Her eyes were pure red and she spread her arms as a wave of darkness rose and began to swarm at the Eevee. The Eevee began to struggle and kick against the darkness. A Giant turtle with a tree on its back appeared and roared, raising a large limb above its dull red eyes and tried to stomp the Eevee out. The Eevee dodged and looked up, seeing something twist itself out of the bark of the tree, a young man's torso appearing and he pulled his arms out and let them hung limp as he was half merged with the tree. His dull white eyes looked at him and looked to the girl's image. "Why couldn't you save me?"
A vision appeared, showing this same young man grasping himself as he twisted in a cage, the tree sprouting from his back as he grew and became a Torterra. The Eevee then pulled out another memory, this one of a Luxray licking and loving a boy that saved her when she was young. The Eevee then called out as this Luxray appeared next to him and fired a lightning attack at the Torterra and little girl, the images disintegrating away. The Doduo then rushed out and pecked the Luxray, the pokemon shattering to oblivion. The Doduo lifted its claw and pinned the Eevee down. The Eevee struggled, the image of a little boy crying out to a furnace of blue flames drowning everything out and the boy and girl began to fade even more, almost non existent.
The Eevee felt weak and saw as the Doduo's claws began to worm and fuse itself to the Eevee's body. It felt itself beginning to fade as it was being absorbed, the boy and girl also descending and beginning to fuse into the bird.
A brown haired girl called out for them...and old man smirked…the man with cold blue eyes led the girls away…he was bound and tied…the pig tailed girl brought an Eevee to his leg…there were screams…The Red Ninetales blasted the Mightyena away…the Quilava looked at him with recognition…"John?"…Missy called out for them..."Mary! John!"…his father smiled before closing his eyes and his hand fell limp…"my little Shou hai…"
The Eevee then released a shout and broke clear of the Doduo's flesh and leapt into the air and a shining wave emitted from him, the wave fading the Doduo away. The boy and girl became solid again and began to separate from each other. They parted and the Eevee began to glide at the boy. He reached his silver paw out and the boy grabbed it, his amber brown eyes opening and a bright light began to encompass all.
We made it…
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The Doduo's heads then snapped awake. "Ah!…John?" one asked.
The left one opened his eyes. "Mary?"
Both heads then began to nuzzle each other, tears coming to Mary's eyes. "John...we made it...we're back."
John nuzzled back. "I know…" Mary then stopped and looked at their body. "Looks like we're a little too close this time…but I'm glad I got stuck with you." She looked to him. "You saved me, in there." John nodded. "duo. Yeah, I guess we both helped each other out of there."
Mary looked up. "So what do we do now? Duo." John's eyes showed determination. "What else, we go and get cured." He looked to her. "Much as we're friends, I'd really like my own body back." He added a chuckle. Mary only nuzzled his head again. John smiled inwardly and tried to get up, but only his leg went as Mary's stayed down. They were lopsided. Mary blushed inwardly. "oops…sorry." She stood up and they were standing. John took a wobbly step forward and Mary took the next step. "Ugh, looks like we're going to have to learn how to walk again.." John then stepped the wrong way and both came tumbling down, squawking out a bit.
Mary only laughed a bit. "Sorry…"
John then squawked and they both began to stand up and took more wobbly baby steps as the moon hung overhead.
"So john…I just want to apologize." Mary said. John took another step. "for what?"
"For getting you involved in this whole society mess and….looking at you memories. I feel so wrong, like I just violated a sacred space I'm not supposed to." John only smiled inwardly again and shared his good feeling with her. "No problem, it wasn't your fault, my thoughts and your thoughts were mixed up anyway, and it helped us come back, so you shouldn't feel sorry. Plus, I was in this society mess before I met you. Remember that Shiny Eevee?" Mary chuckled. "I remember. Still…what was that place with the snow?"
John stopped and looked at her. "Snowpoint resort, me and my family went there a year before…"He paused. She understood. "Oh…you looked happy there."
"Well, growing up in Sandgem where it barely snows, then seeing a whole lot, yeah…you learn to have fun with it."
"Maybe when this whole mess is over, we can go there?" Mary asked.
John thought about it. Yeah…with her…
Cindy…
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Cindy looked up from her resting spot and looked to the sky. She felt a lifting feeling , a good feeling. She smiled. She looked to Sarah, the Luxray sleeping. "Sarah…John's going to be ok…"
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And that's the end of that! Now John really is back! Yaayy! Now all he has to do is get cured and he'll truly return. This chapter is probably one of the few that has a really personal attachment to someone, in this case Swack16. We became such good friends and in one session he shared an experience with me…the one illustrated in this chapter, in the hospital. I could have easily changed the chap as not to mirror reality, but I thought it wouldn't do justice to the character of John and I owed him that much. Swack16 came up with the concept of the silver Eevee bonding with John and battling the Doduo, regaining more of himself the more he fought back, though the ghastly image and nightmarish elements were all me. XD. Thanks to TurtlesandMonkeys for giving me some more info on Mary, elements being borrowed from her story in chapter 12 of Ancient Society and a Pm I sent her. I hope you all liked this. And once again, thank you Swack16, for being a valuable reader and an invaluable friend. : ). Please review! Jonesycat, out! MEE-YAA!