CHAPTER 6

Rachel rolled her eyes. "I knew you were going to say that."

Blitz and I demorphed. Meanwhile, Lisa, Rachel, and Boris started morphing. They were going into their battle morphs.

Boris grew a strange little plant on his back. Lisa grew a long and crooked tail. Rachel's mouth and nose puffed out a little. They were becoming a Bulbasaur, a Pikachu, and a Charmander.

Once Blitz and I had demorphed, we started morphing into our own battle morphs. My battle morph is a male Nidoran, and Blitz's is a female Nidoran.

Rachel, Lisa, and Boris had finished morphing. They waited for Blitz and I to finish.

Morphing feels very weird. Like it should hurt, but it doesn't.

My ears grew longer, longer, longer! Blitz became a very light bluish-purple color; and grew strange-looking whiskers.

The Nidoran's brain suddenly appeared, but I had done this morph before, so I knew what to expect.

The hearing was the Nidoran's best sense. The sense of smell was pretty good, too.

˂Let's go!˃ Boris cried. He bared his teeth.

"Pika!" Lisa cried. ˂Come on!˃

She and Boris started running towards the Scythers, followed quickly by the rest of us.

It took about 10 seconds to reach them, and then...

"SCY! SCY!"

˂Wild Pokémon! Look out!˃

˂What are they doing?!˃

˂YAAAH!˃

We struck, attacking the Scythers quickly and swiftly. Lisa, Boris, Blitz, and I went after the Scythers while Rachel and Michael headed straight for the Ditto Device.

˂Hmm... this is very unusual.˃

I turned to see who had said that. A Pinsir! No, three Pinsirs!

Two of them leapt forward, joining the battle. The third stood there, narrowing his eyes at the nearest Scyther.

˂What by the Council is going on here?˃ he asked, sounding kind of calm.

˂Parasecter Two! Um... well, you see...˃ the Scyther had no idea what to say.

The Pinsir - Parasecter Two - waved a claw in dismissal. ˂Never mind. Look behind you, fool!˃

Too late. I drilled the Scyther in the back with my horn. It shrieked in pain, but then whirled around and slammed me with the flat side of its claw, sending me reeling.

I staggered backwards, and a Pinsir, who was behind me, scratched at me with its claws.

I felt a searing pain in my side from the cuts the Pinsir had inflicted, and I turned to face the big bug.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Michael and Rachel standing next to the Ditto Device. They were watching the battle in horror. They had a choice: try and get the Ditto Device away from here, or help us. They chose to help us.

They bounded into battle. Michael punched the Scyther behind me, and Rachel fried one of the Pinsirs.

It was a horrible battle, and at one point, I was slammed across the head so hard I almost lost consciousness. This was by far the worst fight I had ever been in.

I felt something grab me. I felt a sharp pain in my sides, then pressure. I was lifted off the ground. I kicked my legs, but found nothing.

I suddenly realized what had happened.

I was in the incredibly strong grip of a Pinsir.

Author's Annotation: And so attacking with no plan or strategy doesn't pay off. Poor Pokémorphs – they're not very good at this yet. Do they get any better? Err... I honestly don't recall. We'll find out together.