If you've already read chapter 8, go back to it. I changed the ending. Don't even THINK about reading this chapter before going through chapter 8 again. If you have read the ending where Jason lost the fight then you don't have to go back.

Sorry for the somewhat long wait for this chapter. I found out I had a low grade in my trigonometry class so I've been working on it. I also had some problems trying to upload and edit my documents.

One last thing, I'm going to try adding more of Jason's thoughts instead of just every now and then with a lot of action.

Chapter 9: Recovering

Ugh, I have never had my ass kicked so badly before. My whole side hurts so badly right now. Where the hell am I? I tried opening my eyes and was blinded by a bright white light. The only place that had lights like that were hospitals and pokemon centers. I had better not be in a pokemon center, if they find out about me I don't know what kind of hell will break loose. Reporters, FBI, police, the government, anyone who would try to question me. The government would preform experiments on me. Gotta stop thinking about it I'm scaring myself. I could hear beeping, probably the machine for my heart rate. I tried to sit up despite the pain it caused just to move. The bandages that were wrapped around me hindered my movement slightly.

"Whoa what are you doing? You can't get up yet." I heard Blake's voice. He was sitting in a chair right next to the bed they had me on. He tried to stop me from sitting up, but didn't touch me knowing that it could hurt if he did.

"I can't sit up? Why not?" I asked him. He put his finger to his mouth and shook his head signifying me to stay quiet. Nurse Joy was at the door of the room and she looked confused. "Uh...uh....tree...cko?" I tried to hide my ability to speak. Now you can teach a pokemon to talk, but it takes a really long time and not all of them can. Treeckos are one of the pokemon who can't but not many people know this.

"Um...I see he's awake." She said to Blake before turning to me. "You'll be up and running again in no time don't you worry." She said to me with a smile.

"Treecko tree." I felt like a fucking idiot saying this and I don't know why. That's all humans hear when pokemon say things to them. Seeing how I am one now, I shouldn't feel this way.

"He's taken quite a beating. He should be fine within the week, but he won't be able to battle until he fully recovers from that fire fang." I don't care what she says. I'm going to fight when I want and who I want...after I get out of here though. "I'm going to have to change those bandages. You've got to hold still so you won't reopen the wounds again." I looked down at them when she said this. There was a small but clearly growing red patch on them. "I'll be right back with fresh bandages." She left out to get them.

"Look...I'm sorry for letting this happen to you. I should've warned you about when she gets pissed." Blake spoke. I think I know exactly how dangerous that charmander is when she's pissed. Not only from growing up with her but from experience. "Claus is still pissed at me. I guess I should have stopped her before it got too serious."

"Eh a fight is a fight. I let myself get hurt because I got cocky." I was about to say more but nurse joy came back with a roll of what I assumed to be the bandages. She began unwrapping the ones I had on already.

"This might sting a little." She said after she was done unwrapping the bandages. I looked at my bite wound, it was covered in scabs and pus and bleeding slightly. She gently wiped it with a wet towel and pulled out a green bottle. A full restore, hurts like hell once it hits but works better than any healing move, only problem is that it's expensive and that it still takes awhile to heal completely but it's guaranteed a full recovery. Even works on humans. She sprayed the wound and I couldn't help but yelp. "Now that wasn't so bad now was it?" She said after wrapping fresh bandages around it.

"That's what you think." I said under my breath. That max restore really stings at the start and with everything that stings it itches. I really need something to take my mind off this damned itching.

"You better not scratch at it. I know how much full restores itch after the stinging. I'll hold you down if I have to." It's nice Blake cares enough to cause more damage to stop me from scratching and causing the very same damage anyway. As much as I want to, scratching is the last thing I'll do. These tiny little claws that are barely visible can do a lot more than expected. As small as they are I can completely understand how I didn't notice them at first.

"If you need anything just press this button." Nurse Joy pointed to a red button on the side of the bed before leaving.

"Where's Claus?" I asked Blake. Claus was my trainer, I felt that he should have been here.

"Out getting something to eat. He didn't trust me to be back on time." Of course not, you like to run off and get into random battles with MY bloodthirsty charmander. Oh well time for some payback, that beating she gave me was unnecessary.

"Oh. Bring out your charmander." He lifted an eyebrow as if I was making a big mistake, but let her out anyway.

"What do you want? I thought we had a deal, I won so you stay the fuck out my life." She's still just as violent as ever.

"You caused this, you fix it." I said

"How the hell am I supposed to fix this?" She asked. I'm sure she's going to love my solution. I signaled for her to come closer and she stepped up to the side of the bed.

"Like this." I placed my hand on her head and used absorb. It felt good to gain some of the feeling back.

"What the hell was that for?!" She asked, completely clueless of why I did that.

"Again, you caused this, you fix it." I said. She glanced at Blake who looked away not wanting to get involved. "I CAN translate you know."

"I have nothing to say to him." Ah shes so cute when she pouts, I could maybe...wait I can't be thinking like this, especially not about her. I grew up with her! I'm becoming more and more like a pokemon every hour. Eh I guess there's nothing I can do about it but resist for now.

"What's taking Claus so long?" For some reason I was feeling kind of energetic. Bobbing up and down. Blake never noticed nor did he answer my question. The charmander whom I've yet to name was still pouting and looking away. I felt more and more hyper and happy with each passing second. By now I was bouncing and looking around with maybe the biggest smile in the world on my face. Amazingly they still hadn't noticed. I couldn't hold myself back anymore I jumped up and started running around the room, and by running around the room I mean running from the floor to the ceiling and back down constantly. If you're wondering how was I running along the ceiling then don't. I don't even know how, treeckos can stand and walk on the ceiling or crawl on all fours, but running would be reduced to a power walk. I was running, both feet in the air. I don't drop on all fours as a normal Treecko would

"Crap the steroids are kicking in!" Blake said while trying to catch me only to fail each time. "Don't just stand there help me!" He commanded her, not that it helped much. Neither of them could catch me at this speed. I've always secretly wanted to do something stupid and random like this, never knew it would be this fun. After awhile they gave up, even after Joy came in to help they couldn't catch me. By now I was bored with running around the room and just wasting energy, not that I'd be running out any time soon since medical steroids last a long time. The room was a mess and not because of me running into things I didn't touch anything other than the bed every now and then, but because of their failed attempts at catching me. Even during this time I still remembered not to speak but to say any variation of the syllables in 'treecko'. So I was just running around and screaming 'Treeeeeeckoooooooo!' instead of 'Whee!'. Claus finally came back and I dropped off the ceiling onto his head. Gotta make it seem like we're close, don't want to make him seem like a bad trainer or the average trainer.

"Well look who's awake, how are you feeling?" He said while petting me. Claus catches on really fast. I responded with a smile and happily said treecko. Having to say that around other people was really getting on my nerves and I haven't even been around anyone besides Nurse Joy. I wonder how long it'll be before I blow my cover.

"It's so nice to see a trainer and his pokemon so attached to each other." Nurse Joy said. Did she mean that literally?

"Yeah, I feel that you should bond with your pokemon. Especially since you could spend years together, I mean what's the point of having pokemon who don't really like you around? J...Tanis here actually didn't like me at first. In fact he hated me, never listened to commands, always ran off, and watching in the distance. I was about to just let him go but Blake suggested to keep him for a little longer. After some time he avoided us less and I found out he hated being in the pokeball. Over time he actually started listening and never ran off again." Claus is taking this a little too far now. I wanted her to think we were close. Not for her to think I was some spoiled child who began listening to his parents after getting what he wanted. Also for some reason I had an urge to make the charmander look bad. She looked kinda jealous of me and Claus. I had to say something about it. So I jumped off of Claus' head onto the floor next to her.

"What?" Already she was mad at me and I didn't even say anything. Dammit I don't know how to speak pokemon, and I can't speak normally without Nurse Joy hearing me. All three of them were watching us. I have this sudden urge to make a scene. Something they would never forget, something that will possibly cause me to receive a flaming fist to the face and a few broken bones. This is not like me. If I wanted to embarrass myself or anyone else I would make it seem like it wasn't intentional.

"Why are you staring at me?" She asked. I wasn't really staring at her as much as I was trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to do. I've already started the moment, I can't go back, everyone was watching. What did I just get myself into? I began thinking of things I could do to get out of this particular moment; I could ask for a truce...without speaking somehow. I could wait for someone to break the moment...though time seems to have stopped so that doesn't seem to be happening any time soon. I could make a fool of myself and act like the steroids kicked in again even though I've already gotten over them. Or I could do something to her that would throw her into a mental crisis. I'm so tempted to do that last one. This body is changing the way I think.

She sighed, leaned forward and pressed her lips against mine. Oh....SHIT!

I let my GF choose the ending to this chapter, I actually approve of it, but I wanted this to happen later. If you also feel that this is too soon let me know. I'll change it ASAP. She seems to be enjoying this story.

I need a name for the charmander NOW! Nothing too humane or too common, but nothing completely inhuman. Can't be too girly give it a little force but not too much. And if you can, make it deceiving.

I'll list the moves Jason knows how to use, or has used so far for anyone who didn't figure what he used.

Pound, Aerial Ace, Quick Attack, Giga drain(mega drain and absorb come with this), screech(last thing he did last chapter)

Copied moves known so far.

Ember, Flamethrower, Endure.

For those of you still wondering how is he unaffected by fire when he's still a grass type; when he changes color to the pokemon he made contact with he gains their type and loses his type from before for time it lasts. During this change he can use any and all moves the pokemon he made contact with knew, but cannot use any moves he knows that are weak against or strong against the type unless that same pokemon knew it. There are exceptions to what he can use, he cannot use fly which is obvious, there will be a few others that I haven't thought of yet.

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