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.