CHAPTER 11
I stood there panting. Man, that was a rush!
˂Is everyone okay?˃ I asked.
˂I... I think I'm hurt,˃ Michael said.
˂Yeah,˃ Lisa said. ˂So do I. Let's demorph!˃
˂Or un-morph. However you want to say it,˃ Michael said.
I focused, forming a picture in my mind of me as a human.
I watched myself as I changed... mutated...
It was sickening to watch. And horrifying.
SLOOP!
My tail was sucked up. Unfortunately, the flame on the end hadn't disappeared yet.
"YOW!" I yelped.
The others started laughing. But then stopped when they realized they had sort of morphed out of their clothes.
"Uh, Bounce?" I asked. "Could you-"
˂Yes, your clothes,˃ Bounce said. He quickly gathered up our clothes. We all got dressed.
"Well," Michael said. "That was fun."
"Hey, where's Blitz?" Boris asked.
I looked around. Where was Blitz?
˂Blitz! Blitz! Where'd you go, Little B?˃ Bounce yelled.
"Little B?" Michael said, questionably. Then, he called, "Blitz! Hey Blitz!"
But Blitz was nowhere to be seen.
˂I'm going back into my male Nidoran morph,˃ Bounce said. ˂I might be able to find Blitz by using the Nidoran's great sense of smell.˃
He started morphing again. But the morph was slow, clumsy.
˂It's... it's hard to morph too rapidly,˃ Bounce said.
About a minute later, we were following a Nidoran as he ran along, sniffing the ground.
˂I can smell a female Nidoran,˃ Bounce said. ˂Blitz must still be in morph.˃
"Hey, how come those Scythers and Parasecter One could thought-speak?" I asked Bounce. "I thought that was maybe something we can only do when in morph or something."
˂No, all Pokémon can thought-speak,˃ Bounce said. ˂It's just that they're not sentient. They don't know how to thought-speak, or what to say.˃
"Well, what's the use of that, then?" Michael muttered.
˂Bounce? Is that you?˃
˂Blitz!˃ Bounce cried.
Blitz was suddenly right in front of us. He was still in Nidoran morph. He had a large cut going down his side.
"Are you okay?" Lisa asked.
˂I'm... I'm hurt, as you can see.˃
"Why don't you morph out?" I asked.
˂I wasn't sure if it would heal this cut,˃ Blitz said.
"It should," Boris said. "When we demorphed, it healed our cuts."
Bounce and Blitz started to morph back to Mew.
˂When we were attacking those Scythers, I was finding it hard to control the Nidoran instincts,˃ Blitz explained. ˂Then I was cut, and my Nidoran brain just went wild! The next thing I knew, I was here.˃
Bounce and Blitz were now fully Mew, and it was only then that I realized something was watching us.
I turned... and let out a gasp of horror.
Author's Annotation: Burned by her own tail-flame already? Poor Rachel. It's a wonder she's so eager to keep using the Charmander morph.
Giving all Pokémon the ability to thought-speak was just a nice way to cover my bases. That way, if the Pokémorphs encountered anymore super-intelligent Pokémon in the future, I could just have them communicate via thought-speech.
