Eelizabeth's Tale
12
"We are finally here!" Elizabeth sighed when they climbed up the steps to Oreburgh. She overdramatically flopped down on her back, letting her paws fall to her side.
"Oh, get over it you drama queen." said Jon, placing the eevee back upright. "It wasn't that far."
"Need I remind you, four inch legs?!"
"Well, it's just a bit further to the pokemon center, can you make it that far, or should I just leave you here?"
She looked up with her puppy eyes, "Carry me?" she asked sweetly. Jon rolled his eyes, but then picked her up and proceeded to the pokemon center.
As they got to the doors, Jon snapped his fingers in remembrance of something. "Sorry," he said to Ninetails and Flashbolt, who were still walking next to them, "I think it would be best if you all weren't out." He returned them to their pokeballs.
A nurse greeted them upon their entry, "Hello, and welcome to the Pokemon Center. We restore your tired pokemon to full health. Would you like to rest your pokemon?"
Jon shrugged, "Sure. But we really only need to stay a night."
The nurse eyed him suspiciously, "Are you that boy with the eevee that the Jubilife nurse told me about? The one that checked in with a girl, then snuck out and left her alone and confused?"
Jon gulped, "Uhh, we, um uh…" he stuttered, but was interrupted.
"Who, me? They didn't leave me, they left a note telling why they left and I caught up with them. Riiiight?" a familiar voice asked.
"Uh, pff, y- yeah, that's what happened." Jon answered nervously. After a little more hesitation, the nurse allowed them to stay, returned Jon's pokemon, and showed them to a room.
As soon as they got in, Jon slammed the door behind him. "How the heck did you get here?!" Elizabeth roared, in a less than intimidating manner.
"Relax, don't get your knickers in a twist!" the girl replied in a false British accent. At that moment, a golden light enveloped her, and when it died down, she appeared as Elizabeth.
"Latias, thank goodness it's you." Elizabeth said, now relaxed, and ran up to her and rubbed against her leg.
"Hey, Ellie, I missed you too." Latias smiled.
"At least it's you and not Amy; she's still a friend… I guess, but I don't want anyone knowing that I'm an eevee. It's a miracle that nobody found out yet. I wonder if anyone even knows we're gone!"
"My mom knows we're gone." Jon said casually. "She could tell that I wasn't packing for the weekend, and it took time to keep her from coming with me. That's why I was late getting to your house that one day."
Elizabeth thought for a moment. "… Oh yeah. I didn't think you were telling the truth." She turned back to Latias, "So Latias, how did you get back here?"
"Well, they teleported me to the council, we discussed matters that are classified and that I can't tell you, and I convinced them that the best course of action would be for me to return to you guys." They sat in silence for a while.
"Well, that was not specific at all." Jon concluded.
"That is as specific as I can get. Take it or leave it." More silence.
Jon looked down at his watch, "We should get some rest. It should be the last leg of the journey tomorrow."
Elizabeth wrinkled her muzzle in thought. "That's something I've been wondering about. If we get there the day after tomorrow, there will still be four days until the website said the next meeting was. What will we do until then?"
Latias overheard them "What?" she yawned, "No, you must have read it wrong, the council works in continuous sessions, five days from now is when it ends. The entire council was there when I was taken… well minus a few that have been captured." She shot a look at Jon.
"Oh."
After several minutes, Jon and Latias were sound asleep. But one relieving though stuck in the back of Elizabeth's mind; I hope I'll be human again soon.
***
MEANWHILE…
I hope she'll be human again soon. Elizabeth's mother frantically thought as she floored the gas pedal on her car.
"Honey, slow down!" her husband yelled as they flew down the road. "You're going forty miles over the limit!"
"I have more important things to worry about right now! Our daughter is a pokemon!"
"I know that Jess, but I don't think that- AAAGH!!" he yelped as she ran a red light, narrowly missing a collision with two other cars.
"Quiet! Let me drive!"
"Jess! If we get arrested, how will that help Elizabeth?"
"I'm kinda' hoping we won't!"
"Hope left!" She quickly turned sharply left onto the road to their house.
She pulled in the driveway and slammed on the brakes. She hopped out of the car, "Come on Nick! We have to do something!" But he was rooted to the car, gasping for breath, his eyes wide with fear. "Get out of the car!" she screeched. He quickly complied, scrambling onto the solid ground, but his wife was already inside the house.
"Elizabeth? Elizabeth!" she called out, but heard no reply. She raised her already high voice "Elizabeth!"
Nick caught up with her, "If she hasn't answered to that, I don't think she is here."
"Where else would she be?"
"I don't know, but if I were an eevee," Jess sniffled a bit at those words, "Then I don't think I would want to be alone, but who would she contact? Knowing Elizabeth, she would not want to be made fun of, so only a close friend… That's it! She must have called, oh, what's his name? Jon! He's sort of crazy, he's the only one that Elizabeth that she would trust with something like this."
Jess had already made it to the phone and was halfway done with dialing the number.
"Hello" Jon's mother on the other end picked up.
"Hello, this is Mrs. Vance. Is Jon there?"
"No, he left several days ago. He said that your daughter needed something from him, and he packed up and left. He did say something about Mt. Coronet, but he denied it afterwards."
Jess covered the phone with her hand. "They're headed to Mt. Coronet. Why in blazes would they be going there?" she asked Nick. The man just shugged. She held the phone back up to her ear. "Thank you, that's all we need to know."
"Are you all hiding something from me? This all seems a bit too odd for my liking. This can't all be coincidence. Hello? He-" Jess hung up.
"I hope they haven't done anything crazy." Nick sighed.
"Honey, not only is it Jon and Elizabeth, but Elizabeth's an eevee now. I hope they haven't gone crazy." Nick didn't seem to be listening. "Nick?"
He seemed deep in thought, "I just can't believe it… I invented something that turns a person into a pokemon. Not just a morph, a real pokemon." He looked at Jess, "This is amazing. I can't even imagine the potential for this!" He quickly thought differently when he received a slap in the face from his wife.
"Nick! Our daughter is an eevee and all you can think about is the evil machine that did it… to… her…" She stopped. "Nick, that's it! You can reverse the machine and change her back!"
"Dear, it's not that simple." But Jess had already zipped down to the basement. "Isn't she mood swingy." he murmured to himself, and went down to the lab himself.
When Nick made it down the stairs, Jess was on her knees, quietly crying. Mood swingy indeed. he thought, shaking his head. "What is it Jess?" She merely pointed, and Nick gazed where she was indicating. He saw the large blacked area. "Hmm, wiring never was my forte." He admitted through his teeth, scratching his head.
Jess got up on her feet, seemingly calmed. From nowhere, she tackled the contraption, and clambering on top of it, she screamed with a strangled sob, "There has to be some way to reverse this malevolent thing!!" She ripped off a panel at the top and pulled out a large tank.
Nick's eyes opened wide. "Jess! Be careful with that thing! The gas inside that is what turned Elizabeth into a pokemon! The tank itself isn't very thick!" He watched helplessly as Jess leaped from the top of the machine, thankfully landing on her feet.
"Then change it!" Jess yelled in his face, "Cure it!"
"It can't be cured! It isn't a virus; it is a synthetic gas that causes allergic reactions in people."
"I don't care if I have to swim across the ocean to Citadark Isle! You will make Elizabeth human again!" She shoved the tank at him, but he refused to take it, and it fell to the ground. Nick backed away, but Elizabeth's mother picked the tank up deftly and fearlessly. She inspected it quickly, and looked back at Nick. "Let's try again. Use this to make our daughter human." She held out the tank, fire in her eyes.
"You've gone mad." Nick said, still backing slowly away.
Jess frowned, "I guess we'll do this the hard way." She angrily pushed the tank at him again, and again it fell. Jess picked it up, and Nick gasped. From the tank flowed a glowing orange gas. He ran over to a control panel, and locked down the lab, steel doors covering any and every possible exit, and felt a tearing in his elbow and he lay down in torment. Soon, after much pain and agonized screams, there lay a gallade and a delcatty in the place of the scientist and his wife, their new bodies obscured by the gas.
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Congratulations to Kurstin for being the first one to notice a key point in the story. I hope I didn't make it too obvious. Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've been practically running in circles with things to do, and fighting off writer's block at swordpoint.
~YOSHIKIRB FTW!