CHAPTER 11

I inspected the stuff in the tool box Blitz had carried for me. Some things I recognized, others I didn't.

I glanced down at the chunk of the Ditto Device at my feet.

I looked at the Ditto Device again.

˂I... I think I can fix it,˃ I said finally.

"Really?" Rachel asked hopefully.

˂Yes,˃ I said, more confidently. ˂I can.˃

˂You sure?˃ Blitz asked.

˂I watched Dad as he was building it,˃ I said. ˂I should be able to fix it.˃

Lisa carried the Ditto Device, Rachel carried the cut-out piece, and Boris carried the tool box, and we took all that stuff back to mine and Blitz's cave (which Michael also sleeps in occasionally).

I sat there for a while trying to work out which tool was which, what did what, and what I needed to repair, and all the while Blitz was being annoying.

I sighed to myself. Could I really repair the Ditto Device?

"Hey," Lisa said. "Rachel, Boris, Michael, and I are going back to my apartment for some pizza. Wanna come?"

˂Cool!˃ Blitz cried. ˂I want some Peace Ya!˃

"It's 'pizza'," Boris corrected.

˂Oh cool!˃ Blitz cried. ˂Even better!˃ He paused. ˂What's pizza?˃

"It's a type of food," Rachel said. "Wait... do you have mouths? I don't mean to sound rude or anything."

˂Yeah, we've got mouths,˃ I said.

˂Come on!˃ Blitz yelled. ˂Let's go, Bounce! You deserve a break from working on that thing.˃

˂Blitz, I've been working for about five minutes.˃

˂Exactly! Far too long!˃

I sighed to myself. Finally, I said, ˂Okay. Come on Blitz, we'll fly there.˃

Blitz and I morphed Spearows, while Boris, Rachel, and Lisa just walked back to their apartment building.

When I finished morphing, I took off, not even waiting for Blitz.

˂Hey, wait up!˃ he called as he struggled to catch up.

Michael ran below us.

When we got there, the others were already in Lisa's apartment. I saw Lisa open one of the windows in the side of the building. She smiled and waved slightly at us.

Michael jumped and grabbed a windowsill, hauled himself up, then jumped and grabbed another windowsill.

Lisa's room was on the fifth floor. On the fourth floor, Michael slipped. He grabbed the windowsill as he started to fall, and he just hung there.

Blitz and I grabbed him with our talons and started to lift him. Michael was heavy.

We managed to carry him up to the window, and he jumped inside.

Blitz and I swooped inside, just as...

DI-DING!

"Pizza's here!" Boris yelled. He started to run towards the door. He attempted to leap over the couch, but tripped and fell on his face.

Lisa opened the door and there was a man there. The man was holding a box. Lisa gave him some paper notes and some flat discs, and the man gave her the box.

"Thanks!" Lisa said, and she closed the door.

She put the box on a table. Blitz and I demorphed and sat down at the table with everyone else. The table went over my head.

"Um... here, sit on this," Rachel said. She put cushions on my chair, Blitz's chair, and Michael's chair.

Michael snatched a piece of the strange 'pizza' and desperately tried to shove it into his small Mankey mouth.

"Oookay..." Boris said. "Michael, maybe you should cut it up first."

Blitz reached out to grab a piece, but couldn't reach, so Lisa handed him one. She also gave me a piece.

I inspected it, opened my normally invisible mouth, then started eating. Everyone except Blitz stared.

˂What?˃ I asked.

THE END!

Author's Annotation: One pizza for six people? It must have been ridiculously big.

I had fun rereading this story. It brings the focus back to the Weederpies, is the first one narrated by one of the Mews, and even features Scyther and Pinsir morphs! Sadly it does have one huge coincidence – that the Weederpies and Pokémorphs happened to find the Ditto Device at around the same time.

This is also the Pokémorphs' first encounter with the Weederpies since they first experimented with their powers so it was fitting that they first ignored strategy, came close to disaster, then wised up a little. They're kids too, remember!

Also I just realized that the blurb for this story is ambiguous enough to hint at a "David situation" from the David trilogy of Animorphs, where another human has found the morphing device and is either a threat or a new recruit – perhaps both! That's not what this story was going to be about, mainly because it's still too early in the series for that kind of story and it'd take the focus off of the Weederpies too much. I didn't intend to do a bait-and-switch at all, so sorry if that's what happened.

The next one in the series is Pokémorphs #4: The Gang. See you there!