CHAPTER 12
Behind us, mostly hidden by the grass, was a Pinsir.
It laughed. ˂So, you're humans who can... who can change. Parasecter One will be very interested. Very interested indeed. And two Mews, as well! Parasecter One will reward me for this!˃
"Not if we can help it," Boris growled.
Suddenly, Scythers and Pinsirs appeared out of nowhere!
"You know, I've really got to go home and catch up on some homework," Michael said, sounding and looking so scared he could faint.
˂Oh no,˃ the Pinsir said. ˂You're not going anywhere!˃
Quite suddenly, the Scythers and Pinsirs leaped forward. The Pinsirs bowed forward and rushed at us with their huge pincers. The Scythers used their wings to hover just a foot off the ground, then started flying toward us.
I didn't even notice when I turned and ran. It was just automatic. I just bolted.
To my left, I saw Lisa and Michael running. To my right was Boris, Bounce, and Blitz.
I ran as fast I could. I looked over my shoulder. I could only just see the Pinsirs through the tall grass. We were faster!
But the Scythers... they were flying above the tall grass now. They were coming closer!
"What should we do?!" Boris cried.
I looked ahead... and stopped running just before I would have slammed into a rock wall.
"Oh great," Michael said. "Just great. A wall of rock."
I looked up. The rock wall was the side of a huge mountain.
"Mount Stuart," Lisa observed.
"How can you tell?" Boris asked.
"You know, some of us do listen during class," Lisa said.
The Scythers were spreading out so they formed a semi-circle around us. There was no place to go, no place to hide.
Lisa and I locked eyes for a moment, then we both shouted at once, "We gotta morph!"
I guess we startled Boris, because he jumped about fifty feet in the air.
"We gotta morph, and then try to fight our way out of here," Lisa said.
I closed my eyes. I formed a picture of Charmander in my mind.
I've got a pretty good imagination. I guess I day-dream too much.
I kept my eyes closed, and ignored the fact that the Scythers were amazingly close now. I ignored the fact that we were trapped like wild animals in a cage.
Just focus... just focus...
When I opened my eyes, I saw that I was the first to begin the changes. Then slowly, the others began changing, too.
"SCYTHER!"
One was right behind me!
I was only half-way into my morph.
The Scyther just stared at me. Then, it rubbed its eyes with its huge claws.
The morph! It was done!
Now a full Charmander, I pounced at the Scyther.
Author's Annotation: I'm surprised Boris was the easily-startled one, not Michael.
And I'm pretty sure Mt. Stuart was completely made up. I figured there must be plenty of landmarks in the world not covered by the games simply for practical reasons.
