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It was silent. It was dark. I didn't know what happened to me. Was I inside of a pokéball? But... What the hell, it wasn't possible to be sucked inside a pokéball, wasn't it? But I was inside of one. How could I be inside of one? What happened to the pichu, what happened to Lukas? What would happen to me?! Humans couldn't be caught! They just can't! And I am a human!
It just took a split second for me to think about all this. And at that same split second I thought I was a human, I saw white light. It was. Before I knew it, I was back on the ground at the exact position I had been sucked inside. There was only one difference: I was naked. My clothes were under my body and I was looking in the eyes of a completely infatuated poacher.
"But... But..." he said while looking at me with big eyes. "How in the world..."
It didn't take him very long before an evil smile appeared on his face. He got himself another pokéball which he threw at me. I was still completely confused by the fact I just had been sucked inside of a pokéball when I saw another one coming right at me. The ball hit me and opened. I got ready to be sucked inside... Again... The red light engulfed me... But this time, I was shocked by the red light when it failed to catch me.
"What the hell...!" the poacher said. "No problem, I'll finish you off myself then." He was about to attack me when an dark explosion occurred right in front of me. The poacher grunted in pain as he was blown away and landed on the ground next to his companion, who looked at him and then at the cause of the explosion. Espeon was standing at the border of the colony. She shot of another Shadow Ball towards another poacher that was attacking the pichu. This ball missed its target however and it slammed into the trees behind the poacher. Meanwhile Lukas was fighting like a lion to keep the poacher away from the pichu. Other pikachu joined him in this, which seemed to work pretty well. Lukas attacked the poacher every time he could by annoying the crap out of him and attacking his legs and torso as much he could. He was doing a better job than me, that was for sure...
However, the poacher got scared of the fact one of his friends got disabled. Espeon was also on her way towards us to attack the poacher. Lukas jumped past him, slid just past the pichu in the grass and immediately leaped towards the poacher at the exact same moment the poacher took out... A handgun. I felt my heart stopping. It was like I was watching the whole scene in high speed slow motion. Lukas jumped towards the guy with an incredible leap at the exact time he pointed the weapon at him. In slow motion I saw him pulling the trigger... The gun moved upwards just after a bullet came flying out of it because of the recoil. I looked at the poacher to see a content smile on the face of the man. Lukas was flying, his hind legs behind his actual back after he had just jumped. It was the worst sight I had ever witnessed. The bullet, a black sharp object was flying towards Lukas slowly while Lukas was flying towards the poacher and the bullet. Slowly both objects moved closed towards each other. I looked at the situation and got myself ready to declare Lukas for dead... He wouldn't survive a bullet straight through his head...! It was like the camera zoomed in towards the point of impact... Like you were watching an action movie... The bullet and the pikachu came closer towards each other... And then the bullet hit... I gasped... The bullet went straight through Lukas and... No wait... It didn't! Lukas continued his jump and the bullet shot right past him. From my point of view, it was like he was about to get hit but in reality the bullet shot past him, behind him for me. The slow motion suddenly came to an end as the 'movie' sped up again. Lukas jumped right past the poacher. The bullet continued it's way down and shot right into a... pichu. There was a loud bang as you heard the gun go off. After this bang, there was an awkward silence. Everybody looked towards the poacher who was still pointing the gun towards the small light-yellow creature. It was completely silence. Even the two other poachers were looking at their companion before looking towards the pichu. It was dead. There was no doubt about that. It didn't move and bright red fluid was making it's way out of the head of the rodent. Headshot...
I looked at the pichu, to the poacher and to the pichu again. Then it happened. Something was quickly building up in me. An uncontrollable rage. How dared he to get into this colony. How dared he to shoot at us, how dared he to try to capture us and HOW DARED HE TO KILL A PICHU FROM MY COLONY!
I jumped up, blind rage running through me. But I wasn't the only one. Lukas, Volt, and another male pikachu also had the same face expression. They were mad, very mad. It didn't take us long before the poacher was down. Me keeping to bash his body everywhere I could. He tried to resist but was quickly overpowered by all of us. There was no way he could stand up against all four of us. Volt gave me a warning glare, one that said I had to get the heck out of here. I looked at him and Lukas before I stood way back. The man was unable to move. I don't know if he was paralysed or not, but he probably was. Lukas prepared something and when I looked up I saw a huge thundercloud appearing out of nowhere. The cloud got bigger and bigger in just under five seconds. Then Lukas and Volt joined forces (the third male had fled ordered by Lukas) before they unleashed hell on the poacher. An enormous Thunder attack hit the three creatures. I closed my eyes and lay down on the ground, my arms and chest around and on the remaining pichu to protect them from this. After a couple of seconds the attack stopped. I looked up to see a carbonized body in front of me. The poacher was still alive, but barely. Lukas and Volt looked at each other before they jumped from the poacher and gave him a foul look, one full of hate and aggression. I could only agree. About the whole colony, including the three other poachers that were left, were looking towards Lukas. He gave them a aggressive glance that said "get the hell out of here or you'll get the same" They ran. They all ran away, fleeing away from this place.
I looked them running away, my breath heavy from what just happened. The rage I had felt had calmed a bit and I got dressed quickly before I made my way over to the killed pichu. Lukas was sitting next to it, trying to make it life. I went over to him, but Lukas already gave up on him. He took a couple of steps back, so I could see the pichu. It was Josh, one of his own pichu...
Lukas looked at his son. He looked helpless with a face full of disbelief. He took another step back and looked at Lola, who had been watching the entire battle from the colony entrance. He then looked at me broken hearted before he shook his head softly, turned around and ran away as quick as he could.
"Lukas...!" I said, but Lukas just ran. He went through all the pikachu before he disappeared in the forest at the end of the colony border. I stood there watching him go together with Volt. Espeon stood next to me. I then looked at the pichu again with disbelief. Why in all worlds this had to be Lukas' pichu? Why? The poor pikachu went through so much already. Lost his brother, mother and his father also died. And now one of his own sons had died whilst he had tried to protect him. And so did I. I suddenly felt very guilty. I was the pichu-caretaker. I had to take care of them, I had to protect them. Had I failed? Had I failed to protect the pichu? I looked around once more before I set off to find Lukas. On the way to the border of the colony I grabbed a pikachu I knew was very good at tracking others. I held it in front of me and told it to find Lukas while I ran through the forest. The pikachu looked at me for a while before he nodded and then lead me through the forest. We walked past a couple of known paths, we walked past some clearings before we ended up at the river, close to the place we drank water a lot. I stopped the pikachu, thanking him for bringing me here. He nodded in response before he looked at Lukas.
"You'd better go back..." I whispered to him. He looked at me before he returned to the colony. I watched him go before I turned myself towards Lukas and came closer to him.
"Lukas...?" I said softly. Lukas didn't respond. His ears were hanging and he was just sitting near the water, looking at it.
"Lukas?" I repeated as I sat down next to the pikchu. Lukas looked at me with a face full of grief, sadness, or whatever you would call it.
"... Leave me alone." he responded. I waited a couple of seconds before I answered.
"You know that I won't leave you alone." I said.
"... Leave me alone." he said again, but this time a little louder. I laid my hand on his back, but he quickly turned around and slapped it away.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" he shouted before he turned around, sat down again and started to cry.
"I fucking hate humans... I hate them... ALL OF THEM!" he sobbed. I sat down next to him and laid my hand on his back again. This time he accepted it.
"All of them?" I said to him.
"YES!" he replied, almost shouting.
"Even me...?" I said after a short time. Lukas looked at me before he turned to the water again.
"All of them except one..." he replied. He cried again.
"First my brother, then dad and mom, and now even Josh..." he said before he buried his face in his paws. "I don't wanna feel like this anymore! I don't want to feel this feeling!" he sobbed almost shouting before he bursted into tears again. This time, I lifted him and placed him against my shoulder. I also cried. Not only because I felt very sorry for Lukas, but also because I loved Josh as a pichu. Lukas wasn't the only one feeling sadness. Lukas embraced my neck when I hugged him.
"It hurts... I don't know what I can do about it... It won't go away even though I want it to..." he said, crying. "I just can't stand the pain... I can't make it go away..."
I pulled him in a deep hug for at least ten minutes before we both broke the hug.
"I... I just don't want to..." he sobbed before hugging my chest again. "I feel sick of this... I feel like a failure..."
I scratched Lukas behind his ears with my hands.
"You're not a failure. I understand you feel sad." I said. "You know..." Lukas looked at me when I said this.
"Maybe it's time for me to go back to my home. To leave this colony." I said. "I feel very guilty because of... Everything what happened just now... They came for me, not for you guys..."
"What...?" Lukas said in disbelief. "You can't... go...!"
"Give me one reason to stay... Thanks to me your son got killed." I said, looking away from Lukas. Lukas looked at me with a questionable face.
"Don't say that..." Lukas said with tears in his eyes.
"My job was to protect all the pichu and I failed it." I said.
"You didn't fail it, you did great...! You stood with the pichu just as I instructed you a long time ago..." Lukas said with big eyes. "You scared me when you were sucked inside that pokéball...! I thought people couldn't be sucked inside!"
"Me neither... I don't know what happened..." I said as I looked away. Lukas cuddled me again.
"Please stay with us...!" he said. "I don't want to... To be alone... You're the only one I got..."
"And what about Lola and your pichu?" I said. Lukas looked at me. "Don't you love them?"
"Yes, but... I..." he said, looking down.
"I can't go back to the colony... I have failed to protect us... I..." he said before crying again.
"What's the matter." I asked, hugging him again.
"How can I ever go back to Lola... Josh..." he said while tears flooded over his cheeks. He was feeling guilty. Protecting your offspring apparently was very important in the pikachu culture.
"If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about Lola." I said. Lukas looked at me.
"She's been watching you for the entire fight from the entrance. She was waiting for Josh to brought back in and until then she was waiting for him at the entry of the nest. If someone knows you did your best, it's Lola." I said.
"You think so?" he said.
"I'm sure of it." I said. "Let's head back now, because you need to comfort her and your children." I said.
"I guess so..." Lukas sighed. I groaned and grabbed my head.
"What's the matter?" Lukas asked.
"Headache." I said while I closed my eyes and wished for the pain to go away. It had been slowly building up since I went searching for Lukas. We both went back to the colony. It wasn't the best week for Lukas and Lola, but they both managed to get through. The pichu were about normal one day later, they didn't even miss Josh. Lukas often came to me to just cuddle a bit, just as when his mother had died. Lola didn't comfort him the same way as I did, I guess. I didn't know how pikachu mourn anyway... Do they even mourn? They can be sad, but Lukas had showed off more emotions than any other pikachu I've seen. Maybe he shows more because he's with me? Or maybe he's just a smart pikachu? I guess I'll never know that. I had to check on that with other pikachu like Cammy, Jack and Rosie and their pichu.
Meanwhile as the week went on, the headache I got didn't go away. In fact, it only got worse. Fun thing was however, during nighttime it was far less worse than overday. But everyday I woke up the headache got worse. After the third night Josh had died the headache got back and it was the worst I ever had. I called Oak and said that I would be coming to him to check on me, because I really had a bad time in the colony. I was grumpy, my head was hurting, it wouldn't stop, and I couldn't do my usual stuff normally. The worst thing of all: It appeared that I had lost my ability to speak pikachu. I just couldn't speak it anymore. This made communication with help of Espeon necessarily. After I while I was fed up and I told Lukas that I was going to visit Oak and that I would be gone for a couple of days if things were really bad. He wished me good luck before I got out of the colony and headed back to the laboratory.
I walked along the path towards the lab as I suddenly felt strange... The headache suddenly went... Away but immediately came back. There was something wrong with me, that was for sure. Wondering what Oak would tell me (I had told him I was sucked inside a pokéball, but he just laughed and said I had a good fantasy) I continued my way. I got both parts of the broken pokéball out of my pocket. I looked at them. The force on this thing had to be tremendous when it broke because the mechanism that made it open and close was broken completely. I entered the laboratory and went through the door towards Oak's room.
"Maurice!" he said happily as he saw me coming in. Immediately I felt something climb my back.
"Pika-pikachu!" I heard in my left ear. Scarlet was standing on my shoulder, happily smiling.
"Oh hi Scarlet..." I said, quickly getting her off my shoulder. She giggled and wanted me to pick her up again.
"Sorry Scarlet, I'm not in the mood to cuddle... I feel so freaking... - I grunted - ...bad..."
"You not wanting to hug a pikachu? There's really something wrong with you." Oak chuckled. Scarlet just tilted her head and looked at me. Maurice not wanting to play with her? He must be very ill then!
"Yes there is..." I said.
"Alright, when did it start? I'm not a nurse, but I know more about medics than an average person." he said.
"Uhm..." I said while thinking back. "After I was sucked in that pokéball, really." Oak gave me a serious look.
"Maurice, please stop saying that. Both you and me know that humans cannot be contained inside a pokéball." he said on a serious tone.
"No they can't." I said. "Yet still I got sucked inside one. To be honest..."
"Enough of that joke, please." Oak said again. "Now, please, when did it start?"
"Why do you not believe me?" I said.
"Maurice, you know very well that what you tell me is impossible." Oak said. I looked him in the eyes. I have him a look that I was dead serious. I wasn't joking.
"Well I'm not joking..." I said while I grabbed my head again, trying to get rid of another pain attack inside my head.
"So you were sucked inside a pokéball?" Oak said.
"Yes." I said firmly. Oak looked in my eyes to see if I was making this up.
"Are you... Serious...?" he said.
"GODDAMNIT, SAMUEL, I AM SERIOUS!" I said as I bonked my fist on the table we were sitting on. Scarlet jumped and looked at me with a scared look. She made herself small my lowering her head and body and looking at me with a guilty look.
"Oh, I'm not mad at you Scarlet..." I said as I gently scratched her chin.
"My god... So you were sucked inside a pokéball?" he said. "But, what happened? Can you explain me?"
I explained him everything. From the attack to the kill of the poacher. Oak and officer Jenny already knew that, so Oak wasn't shocked or anything. Jenny wasn't too happy that someone got killed but the body of the pichu I showed her said enough. The pikachu had tried to protect their other pichu by killing him. That's also what I said her. After I gave her a statement she had left. Later that day the body was collected by a couple of people.
"That's really interesting..." Oak said after I finished. "That's really really interesting."
"What is interesting?" I asked.
"The fact that you were contained inside a pokéball while you're not supposed to." he said. "As I said and as you know, it shouldn't be possible."
"I know that." I said. "But still, I was sucked inside that thing." I said while pointing at the table. I grunted. Pain. Lots of pain.
"I'm gonna take a nap. I'm not feeling well and I'm tired." I said. It was almost noon, a time I usually napped. I made my way to the emergency bedroom from Oak, where he sometimes slept when a pokémon needed urgent treatment and when it couldn't be moved to a pokémon center for any reason. Scarlet and Oak followed me. Oak gave me some medicine against my pain which I happily accepted. After I settled down in the bed and closed my eyes, my pain seemed to go away a bit. I sighed a bit as Oak went away and Scarlet jumped the bed. She patted my head with her paw and gave me a questionable look.
"Pikaaaa?" she said softly while she gently rubbed her cheek against me.
"I can't understand you sweetheart..." I said. "One way or another I lost my ability to understand you and I'm quite sure the whole pokéball thing has something to do with it. I only don't know what..." Scarlet didn't care. She dove under my blanket and nested herself next to me. With a content 'pika' she felt asleep quicker than me and I followed fairly soon.
After the nap I felt slightly better. Still bad, but a little better. I was back at the table with Oak. He looked at me.
"Still got headache?" he asked.
"Yes, I have..." I said.
"Just when I left the room, I heard you saying that you lost your ability to talk pikachu. Is this true? You didn't tell me yet." he asked.
"That's true." I said. "Somehow I can't speak pikachu anymore."
"You cannot speak or not understand?" he asked.
"Both. I cannot understand Scarlet and I cannot talk with her anymore." I said.
"That's very strange..." Oak said. He closed his eyes, shook his head like he was thinking like crazy.
"There's something strange going on with you. You have headache and you have lost your ability to speak pikachu. All in just a couple of... Seconds?" he asked.
"It looked like an eternity I was inside." I said. "I was sucked in... And I was thinking... About..."
"Thinking about what?" he asked.
"Thinking wasn't really possible for me to be in there. That I would be caught... It's kind of blurry for me there. What I do remember very clearly is that I thought that I was a human and that I was released immediately."
"That." Oak said while he pointed at me. "That." he said again while walking around the table.
"Something happened there. The exact question is... What happened." he said.
"Alright. Uhm, I want to do a couple of tests with you. Just to make sure some things." he said.
"Well, go ahead..." I said, looking at Scarlet. She looked at me questionable.
"Just talk with Scarlet. In pikachu." he said.
"I told you I cannot do that anymore." I said.
"I know, but try." he said.
"Alright then, let's try." I said.
"Uhm... Hi Scarlet, how are you doing?" I said. Scarlet smiled and talked back.
"Pikachu-pi! Pikachu-pika-chu-pi-pika-chu-pi?" she replied.
"Could you understand me?" I said looking at Oak.
"Yep, I could. Don't rush things, take your time." he said.
I closed my eyes. What helped if I couldn't talk pikachu was imagining I was one. That's exactly what I did. I imagined myself being a pikachu. I imagined... Pikachu... Yellow, small, electric...
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It was like thunder hit me. Like something changed inside me in a flash, an explosion, the blink of an eye. I looked around, like in slow motion. My vision improved. My hearing improved. My sense improved and my scent improved. I looked around and in a split second I noticed I was in danger. I wasn't at a safe place, but inside something unfamiliar. Something I didn't know. Something with a strange smell. There were all kinds of strange smells here. And there was a human standing right next to me that freaked me out. There was also a female pikachu in the room which smelled quite good! But that was something to take care of later, first I had to escape this... whatever-it-was or at least made sure I was safe! I looked to the right very quickly. I looked around very quickly.
"Maurice? What's the matter?" the guy asked. I quickly took a couple of steps back from him and looked at him, very scared. Who knew what he was up to. My breath was heavy and I was very alert. I looked around and I saw an opportunity to escape. There was light coming from there. I turned around and ran towards the place and I wanted to jump through it, only to be stopped by something invisible which I suddenly hit.
"Maurice?! What the devil are you doing?!" the guy asked as he came for me. This triggered me to get up quickly and run around the metal object in the center of the room. I had to get away from here. The guy came right after me and he blocked a couple of escape routes. I had to... I jumped one of the metal things and climbed it, throwing everything in my way down. It created a huge mess, but I didn't care.
"MAURICE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" I heard. He didn't follow me. I was up some kind of thing and he was watching me from above. More people came in. The pikachu looked at me from the table.
"What happened, professor Oak?" one female asked.
"I don't know what got into him." Oak said. "He went crazy from one to the other second. I just asked him to talk pikachu language. You've seen him doing that with ease earlier."
"Why is he up there and why is he looking like he's scared to death?" a guy asked.
"Scared to..." Oak said as he looked at me.
"Leave the room." he instructed. He also left but came back quickly. That thing that could open could be the exit from this. I was alone with him and the pikachu. The pikachu was just staring at me, looking kind of shocked. The guy, apparently called Oak, came closer to me. I looked him coming. I growled. He had to go away, leave me alone. Oak took a step back, but then continued his approach to me. I watched him coming. If he came a bit closer I could jump over him and run for the thing that could open and close. I waited a little more before he was close enough. I jumped down on a table, scattering all kinds of white stuff around but I didn't care. I jumped from the table and ran for the opening thing. I saw the humans open it by pushing something down so I did the same. As soon I opened it and ran through it, I was tackled down by three other humans. Immediately they made me unable to move.
"LET ME GO!" I shouted before I sparked my cheeks and released a thunderbolt... At least, that's what I tried to do because nothing happened. I wiggled, but I couldn't move. I did my best, but the three humans were stronger.
"LET ME GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I shouted again.
"He's- talking- pikachu..." one of them said while he panted when he tried to control me.
"Pikachu...?" the Oak guy said. "Wait, that may be it."
The Oak guy ran around me and sat in front of me quickly. He forced me to look at him.
"You're a human Maurice, a human!" he said.
"Human...? Was he crazy or something? I wasn't a human! I was a pikachu!" I thought.
"You're a HUMAN!" he shouted.
"I'm a human, sure, I'm a..." I said as I was hit again by the same force that hit me a couple of minutes earlier. Not really a force but it felt like my body received a mental slap when my vision blurred, my hearing went worse and my smell went away. Or so it felt. I stopped resisting the people on top of me and grunted.
"Get off him." Oak said while getting up. His assistants got up from me and looked at me while I got up. A bit wobbly I grabbed the wall to stay on my feet.
"How do you feel...?" Oak said.
"What happened...?" I said while standing against the wall.
"I was about to ask you that." he said. "Come on inside." he said as he gently grabbed my hand and led the way inside. I was a bit confused right now and I sat down on a chair in the room while I got myself together. Oak looked at me with a worried face.
"Are you alright...?" he said.
"Yes, I think so." I said while opening and closing my eyes a couple of times.
"Yes, I am." I said.
"Can you remember anything?" he asked.
"Everything." I said.
"Well, what happened?" he asked.
"Well, you asked me to talk pikachu. So I tried and failed the first time. So I imagined that I was a pikachu, this helps me to talk pikachu sometimes. Remember I told you that it goes easier when I imagine I am one?" I asked.
"Yes I do remember that." Oak said.
"Well, as soon I imagined myself being a pikachu, I..." I said as I had to think.
"My vision went better, my hearing improved, I could smell much better and it felt like I was in danger, like I had to escape this place..." I said. "I was also scared of you." I said as I looked at Oak.
"Scared of me and you had to escape..." Oak said. "Sounds like a fight or flee response to me." he said.
"So I tried to jump the window, but I couldn't, and I didn't know why. Then you came for me and I fled away, that's why I climbed your cabinet." I said as I pointed to the place I had been hiding for a while.
"Then you came close after you ordered everyone to leave and I felt my only chance of escape was the door. I could use the door because I saw you using it before, so I jumped from the closet and jumped the table and I remember that I was annoyed by the papers..." I said as I pointed to the mess on the floor.
"Then I went through the door and I was tackled by your staff. I shouted that you had to let me go and I tried to do a thundershock but it didn't work." I said as I looked at him. "And as soon you shouted to me that I was human it was over." I said. Oak looked at me for a while.
"That's... Weird." Oak said while he looked at me.
"It indeed was very strange." I said as I grabbed my head and tried to remember all the stuff.
"Oh, I also remember that I liked you, Scarlet." I chuckled. "You smelled quite nice." I said as I looked at her. She was on the ground and she was looking at me. I got up and moved closer to her, but Scarlet recoiled and looked at me with a scary face. I looked at her.
"What's the matter...?" I said.
"I think you scared her a bit with what happened just now." Oak said.
"Aww..." I said as I kneeled down next to her and gently scooped her off the floor. "No need to be scared of me. I know that it may be a bit scary what just happened... But I'm still Maurice." I said. Scarlet just looked at me and hugged my chest. I hugged her back and sat down on the chair.
"You know, you smell nice... I remember that your scent was really... Sweet." I said as I moved my hand through her fur and back. Scarlet purred.
"Pika-pikachu-pi?" she said. I looked at her and shook my head.
"I don't have a clue what you said just now..." I sighed. "I wish I knew why I don't understand you anymore." I said. Oak turned his head to us. He had been staring out of the window thinking about some things.
"You say you liked her scent... That's strange because normally humans shouldn't be able to smell that." he said. "At least, not what you describe... Can you put your nose into her fur, smell, and tell me what you smell?" he asked.
"Sorry...?" I replied. Scarlet gave Oak a surprised but amused look.
"Just... Just do it." Oak said as he held his hand before his eyes like he was thinking really deep.
"Uhm... Alright..." I said as I moved Scarlet in front of my and ruffled my nose through her fur and inhaled deeply. A scent of pikachu fur and... Sweat entered my nose.
"How does it smell?" Oak asked without looking at me.
"Just like... Pikachu. Sweaty, I'd say." I said. Scarlet gave me an angry look.
"Sorry Scarlet, but humans don't like pikachu smell." I chuckled. She rolled her eyes and sat down on my lap trying to make me stroke her, what I did.
"That makes clear that you certainly were... Uhm... Different just now..." Oak said.
"Yes, I was... I don't know what..." I said as I sighed. "OH... Maybe this is useful." I said as I got the broken pokéball from my pocket.
"What's that?" Oak asked.
"The pokéball that caught me. It broke when I escaped." I said.
"Why didn't you show me that earlier?!" he exclaimed. "Well never mind that. Give it to me." he said. I gave him the pokéball.
"Jeez, this thing isn't just broken. I've never seen such a thing..." Oak said. "Maybe..."
"Maybe what?" I asked. Oak walked over to one of his machines and placed the pokéball on it.
"Let's see if I can read it." he said. But the machine produced nothing but errors.
"Broken really badly." he said. "I should... This may be the key..." he said as he held the parts of the pokéball in the air.
"You should what?" I asked, still scratching Scarlet behind her ears.
"I'm gonna contact Bill. Maybe he can read this thing." he said.
"Bill? You mean the creator of the pokémon storage system? And can you read pokéballs?" I asked.
"Yes, that Bill." he said. "He would come anyway, I wanted to share your experience with him. And yes, you can read pokéballs."
"Wasn't my pikachu thing supposed to remain secret?" I asked.
"Yes, but you're close to quitting." he said. "You told me and I think it's been enough. At least for now." he said.
"But, I don't want to quit..!" I said. "I want to stay with the new pichu." I chuckled. "They're adorable."
"Alright, but I wanted to show you to him anyways. Maybe he can tell me what's wrong with you. He also has better equipment to check this." he said as he pointed towards the two pieces of pokéball lying on the table.
"Alright, I guess I don't have choice." I said. "By the way, my headache is completely gone now..."
Oak got to the phone and dialed a number. A couple of seconds later a man appeared on the screen.
"Hey Samuel, how are you?" he asked.
"I'm fine, thank you." he replied. "Bill, I need your help. I got a problem I can't really explain here, could you come to me as soon as possible?" he asked.
"You mean right now?" he asked.
"As quick as possible..." he replied.
"And why, if I may ask?" he asked.
"It's about that pikachu project I was talking about. I think we have a little problem with it and I need your opinion on this." he said. "And could you take your pokéball reader with you? That thing that can read broken pokéballs." he said.
"You mean this?" Bill said as he opened a tray and got some device out of it.
"Yes, that. And a strong laptop." Oak replied.
"Sure thing. I'll leave at once. You're lucky I'm at Kanto." he replied.
"I knew you were in Kanto." Oak chuckled. "You would visit me, wouldn't you?"
"Oh... I forgot all about that. Good thing you called." he said. "I'll be there tomorrow. If I go now I'll be there in the late evening so I think I'll stay at my cabin and come to you tomorrow."
"Sure thing, see you then." Oak said.
"Bye!" he said. Then the connection closed.
"He's kind of... Strange, isn't he?" I asked.
"He sure is, but he's a genius. He knows more of pokéballs than anyone else since he invented the system behind it and he knows a lot about pokémon." Oak said. You can return to the colony if you'd like and come back tomorrow.
"I'll stay here, just to be sure. I won't go back there with that headache, I have a bad influence on the pichu if I feel bad." I said. "Are Jack and Rosie back to their nest already?"
"Yes they are, you could visit them." Oak said. "Your mom didn't really want them to go away and I know you also prefered Cammy to stay home because of Team Rocket, but Jack and Rosie... Well, they just wanted to get out. Back to their old place I guess." he chuckled.
"I really want to see their pichu again..." I said as I walked towards the door. "Scarlet, you coming with me?" I said to the pikachu in my arms. Now that my pain was gone I felt so much better.
"Pika!" Scarlet said happily. She climbed from my arms to my shoulder and gently rubbed her head against mine.
"Heh heh, good girl." I said as I tickled her chin.
"Chu!" she said before I said goodbye to Oak and we headed out of the door towards Jack, Rosie, Cammy and Kim and Charlie to say hi. Wondering what Bill could possibly think of my condition I spend the afternoon playing with Cammy (which immediately jumped me when she noticed me), Scarlet and Kim and Charlie. They still remembered me and they both loved me, just as the pichu back in the forest. They both loved playing on my body by jumping around me and by trying to catch my fingers. In the evening I went back to the laboratory and went to sleep early. The next day would be full of research and probably full of surprises... At least I hope I know what is happening to me tomorrow...
Alright, next chapter will be very interesting! And yes, I promise, the guy will be a pikachu. I can now promise you. How? That's something you'll have to wait for. CLIFFHANGER! :P