Transformation: New Dawn

Chapter 11: Choices

A/N: Well, Double the Trouble has apparently ended, thus putting a cap on TurtlesandMonkeys' series, but although she has made statements that DTT was going to be the final one, there are chances for spin-offs such as this to continue the story. All I know is that I thank her for jumpstarting this series and allow me to explore and venture this nice little side of her pokemon world. I wish her well with her writing career. No for this story, it still continues. CHIKA!

Disclaimer: I do not OWN the transformation universe, TurtlesandMonkeys does and I am only writing this with her permission. Swack16 owns John and Sarah, Lord Nalthren owns Omega corp. and the Ryotos. I own Cindy.

MEE-YAA!

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Cindy sat back as the embers began to ignite the wood and light up the darkness that was settling in with the setting sun. She walked to the little silk ball that was Sophie and lifted her up, feeling her slight weight. "Ok Sophie, how close do you want to be?"

She took several steps forward. "Here?" She blinked once. Cindy walked forward again. "Here?" Sophie blinked twice. Cindy smiled and set her down. Steve walked up to Sophie. "Are you hungry Sophie?" He asked, offering some berries. Sophie blinked once. Hakura looked up from the berries she was munching on and looked to Steve. "Silcoon usually don't eat during this period of growth, that's what the larval stage was for. Have you noticed her eating a massive quantities of leaves before she evolved?" Steve nodded. Hakura shot Sophie a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, you will be able to eat again when you evolve, though not solid foods." Sophie gave Hakura a worried look with her eyes. Hakura only laughed and continued her meal. Steve looked to Sophie and patted her on the head and smiled and walked back to his spot to continue to eat. Cindy looked from where she sat to the log Sarah was sleeping by, the Luxray taking breaths as she slept with her eyes peacefully closed, several leaves wrapped by Hakura and Steve on her injuries she sustained while battling Miki, being held in place by some silk shots Sophie managed to fire. Sarah's tail wavered slowly as she slept. I wonder what she is dreaming about. Cindy thought to herself and immediately knew the answer: John. She remembers when she would dream about him too. She looked to the stars again and felt something, a sense of hope. She smiled and looked to Sarah. John...he's ok...I can feel it…

She closed her eyes and tried to remember the last time she really saw him. The moment that he was leaving, she reached out and gave him a hug without knowing why, her body just acted on its own. She remembered his amber brownish eyes, his determination when he fought bravely against Akira Ryoto and lost. She remembered when Lina was talking with her about love and how she might have loved John, which she did. Lina laughed at her but now Cindy knows the feeling is real and she would do anything to keep that feeling in her. John, I love you…I just want to tell you.

She rested her eyes and leaned her head in as she drifted off to a brief slumber…

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She was walking somewhere…in a field of green. She could feel the grass blades on her skin and looked down and saw that she was human once again. She looked up and saw him there…

John…

He was standing on the other side of the field, smiling triumphantly and she was so overjoyed to see him again. She began to run through the grass as he did, reaching out for him.

Suddenly, there was a sound like thunder and a sound of many screams assaulted her eardrums. She held her ears to protect against this violent assault and she looked to John, seeing him clutch himself as he held a hand to his throat. She began to cough violently as she felt something enter her system and assault her body.

What is this? What's going on?

John began to scream as something busted from his backside, a long whiplash tail with a yellow lightning bolt at the end. Orange brown fur began to race across his body, growing a dark brown around his hands as they began to puff out into paws. Yellow cheeks appeared on his furry face as his black hair merged with his orange fur and his nose turned black and his neck thickened and joined with his body as he tore out of his clothes and his ears began to flap out and curl at the end. His chest area had grown white fur and he began to shrink, his feet growing bigger and bigger and his body thickening.

Cindy cried out for him despite her pain as she watched the newly formed Raichu shake off its tattered remains of clothing and growl at Cindy, no trace of him in its fierce black eyes. W-why did this happen...no pokemon bit him and it isn't midnight! How? Why am I turning too?

She felt herself look up as her body hardened and stiffened and her skin began to turn purple. Her arms began to shrink as her fingers went way and her legs fused and merged into a shell shape as her mouth opened wide from her screams but were cut off as her tongue began to grow out and lengthen before her eyes her body and legs and head all became one and began to hollow out as her face began to settle inside the purple shell and only her eyes were seen and she was now inside a shell.

"Shellder!" She screamed as she screamed in denial against what was happening and the Riachu/John growled at her and began to charge up a spark and looked fiercely at her.

No John, please!

The Riachu roared and fired off a devastating thunderbolt at Cindy as she screamed…

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…And she jolted awake with a scream, waking up Hakura and the others, but Sarah still remained asleep. Cindy was panting real fast as her eyes were opened real wide. If she could sweat, she would probably be covered in it right now.

Steve walked up. "Cindy, what happened?"

Cindy shivered and she rubbed her self. "Oh… I don't know! I was just in a field with John when he suddenly transformed in the middle of the day for no apparent reason. I did to..."

Warren walked by her and patted her back. "Oh, how horrible. It's ok…"

Cindy looked from her paws. "It happened so suddenly…I heard other screams and just knew it was happening to other people too. I felt this burning in my throat as I breathed before the transformation…"

Warren put his hand to his chin and thought then he looked up. "You mean…you possibly got infected from the air? Like, an airborne virus?"

Hakura shuddered. "If this thing becomes airborne, then everyone will be in trouble, and the human race will meet its end…"

Cindy shuddered too. "It was only a dream, but it felt so real. Last time I had a dream like that, I sensed that something was going to happen to my friends and it did."

All of them cast worried looks at each other and all hugged around Cindy.

Cindy looked worriedly to the sky. Oh, what if this virus does become airborne? Is it even possible?

She allowed herself to be surrounded by her blanket of friends. "L-lava…" she said calmly.

She blinked. "Why did I say that?" she asked. She then buried her head into her friends again.

If it becomes airborne, then I'll never see my friends again and I'll never be human again…and then I'll just disappear into nothingness…

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Sophie sat from where she stood watching the others hug Cindy. She would have done so too but she couldn't move. She felt like a baby right there, not being able to move or talk and only watch. It was like she was still alive but she was just a thing or something. She began to tear up at not being able to move or talk. Why did this happen to her? She was only walking home after school when she stumbled onto that Wurmple…

It bit me, and that's when my life fell apart…

She shuddered when she remembered the pain that racked her body as her back turned red and her bones just seemed to disappear…

She would have sighed if she could. Even if I'm not a Wurmple anymore…I don't want to be this either. I just want to go home and be my human self listening to my music and hugging my mom and my sister and…

She heard a rustle and looked beyond the group. Her heart beated fast when she saw the Ariados scurry by on the tree and slowly descend right behind the group. She wanted to cry out to them to get their attention, but she couldn't. What could she do but watch?

No! Look out behind you!

She squirmed and wiggled but she couldn't move. She then had a split thought and fired a string shot at Steve, who looked to her. "Hey!" he called out and the rest looked to her.

"What's the matter Sophie?" Cindy asked. Hakura then looked up and growled.

"There!" she shouted and Cindy looked up and saw the Staraptor swoop by and fly overhead, grazing them with its claws as it zoomed by. He flew overhead. "Now!" he shouted out.

The Ariados sprang from its hiding spot and fired a net of web around the group. Cindy and the others cried out with surprise as the sticky web ensnared them. Sarah then began to stir and gasped when she saw them ensnared and was getting up when a Flamethrower struck her on the side and slammed her into a tree. The Ninetales stepped from her hiding spot and smirked. "Not this time." She taunted with a smirk.

Cindy gasped and called out. "Sarah!" Her flames then began to burn and she could feel the web surrounding her begin to loosen as they shriveled away and became weak. She then had an idea and fired a flame shot and tore a hole through the net. The other's quickly scrambled away. Cindy was rung toward Sarah when the Staraptor flew by and grabbed her by the ears, making her cry out. "Ahhh!" The Staraptor then flung her by her ears into a tree where the Ariados fired another re, shutting her mouth and wrapped around her center, tying up her arms and legs but leaving her rear and head exposed so her flames couldn't reach. She struggled and watched as Hakura then pounced on the spider but the Ninetales talked her and sent a sparking ray at her and she began to wobble around confused when the Ariados fired another web at her and tied her up in a similar way to Cindy.

Steve and Warren ran toward her when the Staraptor swooped by and clipped Warren at the back of his head and he fell forward with his eyes closed, unconscious. Steve gasped and tried to help the fallen Ralts up but the Ariados wrapped them in a net again. He struggled against the net but couldn't budge.

The Staraptor landed on a perch and smirked.

"We got them."

Cindy struggled against her web but she couldn't burn them this time. Sarah was getting up again but the Ninetales held her head down, the Luxray still exhausted by her previous battle. The Ariados wrapped her in a web and grouped them all together into this big web trap.

The Staraptor looked at Cindy. "Wilhelm wants you all captured alive to bring to him. He's giving you another chance. Ariados, take them back."

Ariados nodded and began to take the web slowly, scratching against the ground. "Too…heavy…" Staraptor sighed and lifted a string and Ninetales began to help push.

"This is much easier when Shiftry is with us." The Ariados noted.

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Wilhelm stared with a smirk at the two humans who were still in the web, anticipating when their screams would begin. He was also anxious for the team he sent out to bring back the Quilava girl. I must have her back…

He heard the bushes rattle and saw Shiftry bounding back. "Sir, The capture team has returned, they have them." Wilhelm bounced from his spot with a smile. "Excellent."

He hoped from his perch to become level with Shiftry. "So they're coming now?"

Shiftry nodded. "They are pulling them slowly over."

Wilhelm showed his distaste and impatience. "Well go and help them, bring them to me, NOW!" The Shiftry nodded and hopped back to the forest.

Wilhelm rubbed his claws together. Soon…

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Cindy felt the net stopped moving and saw the Shiftry and the other's let go. She felt something cut her web and found herself being held by Shiftry. Wilhelm was there, smirking.

"Ah well well, look what the Persian dragged in." He sneered. Cindy shook against the Shiftry, but he was away from her vents and she couldn't burn him. Wilhelm walked right up to her and stroked a claw across her chin. "Now I have you back in my grasp to ask you once again if you will join me."

He held his claws out as Ariados brought something in his jaws. Cindy gasped. It was Sophie, hanging worriedly in its jaws. The Ariados rested the Silcoon at Wilhelm's feet and Wilhelm motioned him away. He then stomped a foot on top of her, Sophie squeezing her eyes. Cindy gasped. "Stop!"

Wilhelm looked at the Silcoon with a predatory gaze. "Such a frail inside…hard surface, but that can be remedied." He took a claw and began to graze Sophie's shell, Sophie closing her eyes with pain. If she could scream, she would have.

Cindy watched in Agony as Wilhelm scratched Sophie again. "Stop it! What do you want?!"

Wilhelm sniggered. "Why, I want you and your friends to join me."

Cindy spat at him. "You're cruel! Cruel and heartless!"

Wilhelm gave Cindy a disapproving look. "No I am not, I am only doing what was entrusted in me to fulfill. The human race will fall and you are going to help me."

Cindy struggled. "No I won't!"

Wilhelm sighed. "Then I guess this one perishes." He brought his claws by Sophie. Cindy struggled. "No!"

Wilhelm looked to her. "It's real simple…join me and she lives…deny me and you die along with her, and I really do hate spilling needless blood. " He said in an ironic tone.

Cindy looked painfully from her friends to Sophie and saw Wilhelm dig his claw into a spot he made in the shell and Sophie squeezed her eyes with tears. Cindy could only imagine her screams. If I say yes, more innocent people will get hurt, but if I say no, he'll kill her and us too…

She wanted to scream she wanted to tear herself to pieces and not be here at all.

What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?

She saw Sophie's eyes begging at her to say otherwise, but Cindy didn't want to see her friends die tonight…

I have no choice…

"I…accept…" Cindy said while looking down.

Wilhelm smirked. "I thought you would." He pulled his claw out of Sophie and Ariados came by and picked her up, her eyes looking strained and filling with tears. Cindy could feel some come to her eyes.

Wilhelm walked to her. "Before I set you off, I have to have your firmest assurances you mean what you say...otherwise, I'll kill her and your friends."

Cindy looked into his eyes with burning tears. "I mean what I say, I will join you…"

Wilhelm put a claw under her neck.

"Do you swear to aid the liberation front and attack any human without question?"

Cindy nodded tearfully. "I do.."

"Do you swear to always remain loyal to the cause and carry out what must be done to fulfill it?"

"I do…"

"Do you swear on you life, never to betray me, knowing it will cost you your life and the lives of your friends?"

Cindy looked at him and felt like tossing a flamethrower at his face, she wanted to pounce on him and rip his throat out, even if her attacks wouldn't hurt him. She was shocked at her rage, but she said the words very forced.

"I do."

Wilhelm made a slash by Cindy's cheek, drawing blood and he brought it to his mouth and licked it off his claw and smiled to her.

"Very well. Let them go."

Warren and Steve both scrambled to Cindy, who was looking down at the ground.

"Cindy…"Warren began.

Cindy shook her head. "I did it to save her…"

Warren walked up to them.

"If your loyalty is indeed true, then you must prove it…there are some human's camping around here and I think it's close to midnight. Bite them to prove your loyalty and I'll surely let your Silcoon friend live. Let them go and make no attempt to pursue them, I may have a change of heart. And I am a pokemon of my word." He put his claw to his chest and smirked at them.

Cindy looked down and then looked at the children in the web, tears streaming down their face. What have I done…

The Staraptor flew by on a branch. "The Humans are beginning to move."

Wilhelm smirked. "Well you better get to it then. Oh, and don't disappoint me."

Cindy looked to Steve and Warren and Hakura and Sarah, who was barely getting up.

"Cindy…you're not going to…"

Cindy felt tears in her eyes. "I have to Sarah, otherwise he'll kill you and everyone else."

Sarah looked at her. "Are you sure you can take it?" Sarah asked.

Cindy looked down. "I don't know…"

She then followed the Staraptor and the Ninetales while the Ariados watched over her friend and Sarah snarled.

"This is just wrong."

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And there! This was a chapter I had for awhile after I brought Wilhelm back. It is very similar to the situation Missy and her friends had in the original story where Blake threatened to kill her and her friends if they didn't join them, only they got away from that situation. Cindy was more with her back against the wall and she could see no other option. Coincidently, this chapter is the 11th chapter like how "An option" was the 11th chapter in the original, and I just realized that now!XD The dream she had also had some foreshadowing to the events in Double the Trouble. So will Cindy actually go through with it? We'll find out soon, but for now, please review! JonseyCat, out! MEE-YAA!