Transformation: New Dawn
Chapter 10: Hope
A/n: Hi everyone! Today is a very special day, the birthday of my good friend Swack16. Happy birthday Swack! This chapter is for you. Everyone else, enjoy.
MEE-YAA!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Pokemon, Nintendo does. TurtlesandMonkeys owns the Transformation universe. Lord Nalthren owns Omega and Akira. Swack16 owns John and Sarah. I own Cindy. CHIKA CHIKORI!
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Standing by a wide window that overlooked the sea, a young black haired woman had her arms crossed behind her as she looked out at the passing waves against the shore. She closed her eyes and began to feel her thoughts drift back to times past. She felt her breath slow and become stifled as her body began to tremble and her teeth were clenched, trying to fight back tears that were building in her eyes.
Akira…
Mika Ryoto only let the tears flow bitterly as she stared at the blue sea.
She elbowed her tears away and walked back to the radio receiver where she last heard that the search teams had found no sign of her transformed brother or his new family. She heard the phone ring and walked over and picked it up. "Mika." She answered with a professional tone, trying not to let her emotional bout from earlier sound in her voice.
"Hi sis, it's Mikoto. Do you want me to be with you? Is there anything I can do for you to take your mind off of…"He paused, careful with is wording.
"No thanks, I'm fine." Mika responded back looking to the side. "Any update in trying to figure a cure out?"
"Well, like I said before, all I need is a cure agent to figure out how to flush it out of the Pokemon's system completely, still figuring that out." He cleared his throat. "But we were briefly informed about the possible cure from our operatives in Slateport. I think it's actually a bit too simple but from what they say, all it takes is a strand of uninfected human DNA."
Mika closed her eyes with frustration as she tried to remain calm. "Yes that's very interesting but are we talking about prevention or an actual cure here?"
"Well, we know the DNA interruption helps for prevention, but we have no known proof that this actually reverses the process. No one has ever come back from full transformation, at least as far as I know. They say that that Missy scientist from Rustboro has, but she's gone missing again that I highly doubt she came back at all."
Mika put on a grim mask of determination as she looked out the window to see a helicopter bearing the familiar Omega symbol as it was approaching the island. "Can we at least test it out? What do we have to lose?"
She could sense Mikoto's confusion. "Um test? We'll need a Pokemon turned human to test it out and the only way we can obtain them is by capturing them or making one of our own, and I find it highly doubtful any one is willing to-"
Mika saw the chopper land and saw the uniform of officer Yui stepping out and ushering his team out. "I think you may have your chance."
"What?" Mikoto asked suddenly with confusion.
"Meet me at the helipad, I just have a feeling about this."
"Ok, see you there." The phone clicked off and Mika put it down and looked with hope toward the chopper. Please, please let it be Akira...or at least something that will take me closer to finding him…
"I sense your hope child, it helps make even these dark hours seem not so dim anymore." A wise soothing voice sounded behind her and Mika turned to see the silver haired Moro standing in a more modern version of her silver silk dress and she had most of her markings concealed save for the one on her forehead.
"I modified my appearance to blend in a little more." She said with a slight smile. Mika tried not to look her in the eye and walked past her. "I swear Moro, you are just unbelievable at times."
Moro closed her eyes and smiled. "These are unbelievable times child, and soon you will come to realize just how far the human spirit can soar."
She began to follow Mika down the stairs to the elevator. Mika narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "And what is that supposed to mean?"
Moro flashed another wise smile. "In my life time, I have learned that in times of immense trials that the full extent of ourselves truly shines."
They walked into the elevator.
"And it has been a long life."
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They walked to the helipad and Officer Yui stood up and saluted Mika as she approached. His men did the same. Mika nodded and they stood down and Yui began to walk with her down the aisle to the island interior. "How was your search, officer?" she asked.
"Well, Ms Ryoto, we have not found Akira or any other Ninetales in this last venture, sorry to say."
Mika closed her eyes as she tried to hide her disappointment and opened them again as she stared ahead. "Well?"
"We did obtain several VP's that I thought you should look at." Yui said while reaching into his belt and pulling two Pokeballs.
Mika looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "A feeling?" Yui nodded. She looked at the balls and could feel some sort of strange connection as if she were meant to have these pokemon here.
"The wheels of fate are shifting." Moro said from behind her with her trademark smile. Mika jolted up and stared at Moro with disdain. "For Arceus's sake Moro, you know I don't like it when you do that."
Moro smiled with her eyes closed, seeming almost youthful. "Sorry, the opportunity presented itself."
Mika took the two balls in her hands. Well, Mikoto has some test subjects now…hope I'm not making an even bigger mistake.
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Mikoto was rushing through the halls to get to the helipad. Man, lateness is not a trait of mine, but I have been so backed up with this whole thing with the virus and Akira, plus not to mention my thesis on the shiny gene. And- His thoughts were interrupted when he bumped into a young black haired female scientist.
"OOF!" he landed back and heard papers scattering. He looked up and saw Nomi Masterson rubbing her head. "Ow, in a hurry Mikoto?"
Mikoto stood up and helped Nomi to her feet. "Sorry Nomi, I was on my way to the Helipad and-" he looked behind her and saw Mika walking with some omega officers and a silver haired woman he didn't recall meeting but had an air of familiarity about her. Nomi and Mikoto both dusted themselves off and bowed.
"Hi Mika, sorry I didn't meet you sooner but-" Mika held up her hand and smiled. "It's all right brother." She hugged him there, causing Mikoto to blush at being hugged in front of his peers by their boss but he hugged her back and smiled. It was a warm hug. They parted.
"Ok, officer Yui and his tame managed to capture some confirmed viral pokemon that you can test your theories on." She gave him the two balls she had in her hand. Mikoto recognized the ball as being an Omega designed ball, the specially designed capture ball that was made for this crisis. It was made only for the transport of pokemon but does not designate them to the trainer. And if they are human, they won't have to worry about belonging to or following orders from the person who caught them…
He took them and nodded to his sister. "Ok, I'll see what I can do."
They walked to the lab and walked to the new cells where they studied the viral pokemon that Akira shipped to them. It was a small square room with an observation window and a lock so that if the pokemon became too rowdy, they would seal it inside and the automotive systems will sedate the pokemon. Two omega guards were armed with electric rifles in case the pokemon was rowdy on exit. Mikoto placed one ball at the center of the room.
"Ok, let's do this one first..."
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Inside the cramped space, they were everywhere at once. It was tingly everywhere and they could not see.
So strange…it's like being alive but having no body at all…
There was nothing to see, nothing to hear, only the musings of the mind reassured them that they still existed. It was literally cogito. But even thinking was dulled in here so that one didn't do much of anything in the cramped space but rest. Still these two minds still mused.
Suddenly, there was a jarring feeling and a bright flash of light. The first sense that was regained was the sensation of breathing. Air! Followed by that was feeling itself as they can feel their body seemingly reassemble itself from nothing and they touched solid ground. The spots faded from their sight and they can see again. It was like being born again.
Mary and John gasped and squawked out loud as they were released from the Pokeball and could feel life retuning to them. They looked around frantically as if trying to gain their surroundings as panic hit them immediately. Having one's body disappear and reappear is certainly not an experience everyone goes through ever day.
"Duo! Duo!" they squawked as their heads swooped around, trying to gain an idea of where they are as they panicked. The men in uniform reached for their rifles and aimed at the two-headed bird, but the scientist with glasses and the black hair urged them back.
"No, don't shoot! They're probably a little rattled from being in the Pokeball." He said, looking to them.
"Well of course we freaked out, we had no body!" John said to them but it came out as Doduo squawks to the humans. He was careful and shut his beak, trying not to rattle them or appear threatening to them. His eyes fell on the girl with black hair and blue eye who looked almost familiar, almost like…
Akira…
This girl looked like the man who battled and defeated him. She was probably his sister or something. He also had this strange feeling about the silver haired woman at her side. Mary looked at the mark one her forehead. "John, look, she has a mark like those kids." She noted. John saw it too, bit he didn't feel threatened by this woman. "Yeah…but she seems different."
The black haired girl walked over to the scientist. "So, what do we do Mikoto?"
Mikoto played with the rim of his glasses. "Well, from what the reports say, we just inject them with human blood."
Mary and John got excited. These people knew about the cure. They soon began to bob their heads, nodding to tell him he was on the right track. He saw this and smiled.
"Ah, I take it you've been through this before?"
They nodded again, their hearts beating fast. This could be it, they might be cured.
Mikoto walked over with a syringe and looked to his younger female comrade. "Nomi, do you mind?" he offered her the syringe and she offered her am. "Not at all." Mikoto stuck the syringe in and extracted some blood, then he walked over to the Doduo.
He looked to the blood and then to the bird. Ok, this is it.
He took the syringe and stuck it in the birds round body and pushed the blood in.
The Doduo began to tingle and its body stiffened up as it felt the cure rushing through their systems. The first thing that happened was that their beaks began to slowly creep back to their face and shrink and split until they became soft lips again and the nostril holes settled where they should be and grew into a human nose again.
Mika and Mikoto took a step back at this new development, their eyes wide, but the silver haired woman watched with a sense of familiarity and odd curiosity.
The brown feathers began to fade away as the right head began to sprout long blond hair while the other head was growing messy black hair, their beady eyes returning to human shape. Their black necks began to shrink back as they bent their legs and sat down as the skin on their sides began to quiver and the area began to round off into a shoulder and that area swirled like flesh colored silly putty as a mass began to grow out longer and longer, gaining shape as the muscles and bones grew and the fleshy quivering stump began to sprout five digits and become an arm as it sprouted to full length. This arm as slender and petite and on the other side the process repeated itself only this arm was a bit more muscled.
At this stage, they looked like conjoint twins merged at the center with only one arm each and chicken legs at the bottom. Where their necks met the torso began to shift and suddenly split and traveled down to their legs. The boy and girl suddenly flinched, feeling themselves beginning to separate as new bones and organs grew from the old ones that split into two. John could feel the moment their beating heart ceased being one and stopped for a moment as it split and relocated the pieces to their proper places where they began to beat again. Where their necks met the torso began to shift and suddenly split and a line traveled down to their legs, the body splitting at that moment in two.
With more space to grow, their other arms began to grow in their respective places and their clawed feet began to shrink as the four twos got shorter and stubbier and shifted and moved until they became human feet again. John felt a sensation as his bones shifted and begin to move to make a new leg as he saw his flesh shift and move and felt a numbing sensation as nerves traveled along with the bones and muscles and felt a pinprick of sensations as they returned felling and he had his right arm and leg back. He felt one more sensation and felt himself growing what made him himself in the first place and he was human again. Mary felt her leg grow back and had her left arm back and she felt her breast return and she was human too.
The two humans were lying on the floor, breathing, staring at their hands and feeling their faces to feel no more feathers and to actually have arms again. With tears in their eyes, Mary and John both hugged each other, feeling the warmth of their bodies. Then after a moment of realization, the gasped and blushed as they parted from each other and whirled way fast with red faces. John tried to get up but felt his leg act sort of tender and fell on his stomach, hitting the linoleum floor with an audible smack, feeling the cool floor against his bare body. Mary just curled up her legs and curled in a fetal position, blushing from John. Nomi walked by with her lab coat and covered Mary and helped her up while Mikoto walked over john and took off his lab coat and wrap it around him. John struggled to stand up but cold see Mikoto's smile. "Well what do you know, it worked. Welcome back." He took Johns trembling hand and slowly walked with him, John having a difficult time with his right leg while Mary had a hard time with her left leg. She looked to John with a smile. "John, we made it, we're cured."
Mika seemed to focus her attention to the boy when she heard the girl call his name out. John…not John Kai ping, could it be?
Moro herself seemed to visibly flinch at the boy as if some recognition came to her and she looked at him with a look of yearning. So much like him…
Mikoto and Nomi helped the cured boy and girl to take a seat at some sofas they had handy. They held the coats close to themselves as they blushed. Mika walked up to the boy. "…what are your names?"
John looked up. "huh?"
Mika stared at them. "Can I have your names?"
"My name is Mary." Mary said.
John shrugged. "And my name is John."
"John Kai Ping?" She added.
John was beginning to nod when he looked at her. "Wait, how did you-" His words were cut off by a slap on his cheek as he fell to the side and held his face and shot an angry look at the woman. "Hey! What the hell?!"
She began to bite back tears of anger. "Your fault, all your fault…" She then began to rush out of the room.
Mikoto stared down her way with curiosity. "Wonder what set Mika off." He looked to John and offered a hand. "Mikoto Ryoto, Mika's older brother."
John's eyes widened. "Ryoto…wait, are you related to Akira Ryoto?"
Mikoto smiled. "Ah, so you know my brother."
"Yeah, we battled against each other." John said. "Beat me pretty bad."
Mikoto fiddled with his glasses. "Ah, so you're the one who led to Kitsune getting infected." He waved his hands. "Don't worry, I'm not going to hit you."
John looked at Mikoto with worried eyes. "Akira...how is he?"
"Well, he's infected, like you were. He's a Ninetales right now."
John's eyes widened as he stared off in disbelief at Mikoto's words.
"No. no it can't be." He was beginning to tremble. Mikoto edged in closer. "Hey its ok. Nomi can you fetch some clothes for our gues-" John kicked the floor and beat his fists against the sofa. "NO!NO! DAMNIT! IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY! DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!" John beat the sofa with tears building up.
Mary reached and arm and put it over his back as John stared at the ground with tears building.
Cindy… Akira… Lina… so many people deserving of being saved and only I get rescued…why did this happen this way?
Moro walked by the boy and looked at him with compassion and began to walk out the door, leaving him there with only Mikoto, Mary, and his thoughts for company.
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And there! Whew! Yay! I finally cured them! It was an interesting cure scene to write, writing as a merger separates into two separate people again. Also present was the awkwardness that came from them being from two different genders and being cured at the same time. XD. Also, he is informed of Akira's fate. I thought that Mika might bear a grudge toward John for his hand in Akira's downfall so that was emphasized by the slap in the middle. Another interesting thing to write was the point of view from inside the Pokeball. Imagine having no body and suddenly gaining it again. Think of the sudden shock. XD. The character I had the most fun with in here is Mika, displaying her tumultuous emotions about the whole situation. Well, John is back and well get back to Cindy soon. Once again, this chap is dedicated to Swack16, Happy Birthday Swack! :D.
Please review! Jonseycat, out! MEE-YAA!