Hey everyone,
I forgot to add something to the top of the last story, so I'll make this extra long. Kidding. Enjoy the new part, please review, I would like to know what you think about it! The story took a dramatic turn, but... Well you'll see. :)
I felt faint. I don't know how long I was gone. How long I wasn't aware of anything. I opened my eyes so see some iron bars. I was looking upwards towards the ceiling of the cage I was in. It was quite big. I could stand in it, but I didn't have much room. It was probably three by one point five meters, and I wasn't the only one in here. The cage was crowded with pikachu from all ages and from all sizes. There must be at least thirty of them in here. In my cage were only males though, the females were in a cage next to the one I was in. There were lesser females, about twenty. I looked around to see all the pikachu. They were walking all across the cage. Some were lying on the cold floor taking naps, and some were standing in front of the bars to see if they could possibly escape.
The distance between the bars was quite big, a pikachu could easily fit through. Unfortunately, Team Rocket had mounted gauze around the cage which was pika-proof. I noticed I was lying on the floor and on my back, taking a huge amount of floorspace.
"Pika-pikachu..." I heard around me.
"Pika?"
"Pika-piiii."
I grabbed my head and felt a bad headache. Not from my pikachu side, but just in general. I didn't know what they used to make me faint, but it sure wasn't good, bloody hell. I sat straight up and shook my head. The pain lifted a bit as soon I started moving. The pikachu looked at me, even the females. They were wondering what this human was doing inside their cage, which was quite small already and couldn't fit more pikachu, let alone an extra human. I smiled vaguely at the yellow rodents before I sat against the wall and sighed.
I was captured and Arceus knows what they're gonna do with me. They also have Cammy and...
"Cammy." I whispered. I stood up and looked through the room. I saw multiple cages holding pokémon. There were some pikachu in different, smaller cages on the opposite of the room. Some of them held two pikachu, others held one. There was some food in the smaller cages which the pikachu could eat, they also had water. I looked around and noticed that there wasn't any water in our cages, and no food either. I turned around and sat down again (carefully, because I didn't want to squeeze a pikachu) and I looked at one of the pikachu.
"What is this place?" I asked in pikachu language. Over half of the pikachu gasped. A male in front of me responded.
"Can you speak our language?" he said.
"Yes... I can speak pikachu." I said.
"But... How?" he asked.
"That's a long story..." I sighed as I hung my ears (at least, my pikachu side wanted to do this but my human ears couldn't hang much). "I can't really explain it. You probably won't understand anyway..."
The pikachu looked at me with his head turned a bit, but then accepted the answer.
"So, where do you come from?" he asked.
"I come from a colony of pikachu in the woods near Pallet Town." I said.
"Never heard of..." he said.
"He's from the colony near the lake..." another pikachu said. He was standing next to me and had smelled me. "I can smell that. I believe that Tommy was their leader."
"Tommy?" another pikachu asked, perking his ears up. "I was from Tommy's colony as well!"
"Really?" I chuckled. "Well then, I'm your new leader then..." I said.
"New leader? What do you mean?" he asked.
"I am the new colony leader together with Lukas." I said.
"Who's Lukas?" another pikachu asked.
"A pikachu from my colony." I chuckled.
"Alright then..." the first pikachu spoke as he looked sideways. He gave me a hopeless look and sighed deeply.
"I wish I could return to our colony... Actually I don't care which colony, as long I can get away from here..." he said.
"How is Tommy?" another pikachu asked. It was the pikachu which, apparently, was from my colony.
"Tommy died a while ago." I said. The pikachu gasped.
"What... But... How?" he said.
"He was killed in a battle with the group of ekans and arbok." I said.
"Those fucking bastards..." he whispered. This pikachu surely was from our colony. I returned to the pikachu in front of me.
"Can you tell me what they do here?" I asked.
"Well, I'm not really sure what they do here. Every now and then, they get some pikachu from here and they take them away. Most of them don't return. We only had two pikachu that returned, and they said that they were rejected and they were placed back here." he said. I was looking in my pockets. I had felt my phone and I got it out of my pocket.
"What is that?" the pikachu said as he watched it.
"My phone." I said. Those idiots hadn't checked my pockets and forgot all about it. I unlocked the interface. Maybe I could get my location by GPS. I looked at the screen and all hope faded. No signal. We must be somewhere where the signal didn't work or was blocked. Now I thought about it, there was no window in this room, just a small light on the ceiling. I suddenly felt hungry.
"Do you get food?" I said, looking around. "I don't see any."
"Yes we do, the feed us. It's not much, but at least it's food." he sighed as I put my phone away. "There's a kind researcher that gives it to us. There's always someone from Team Rocket with him and we believe he is also captured."
"Oh..." I said. Apparently there were more prisoners here.
"And why are the females over there and you here?" I asked, looking at the females. One of them answered (the cages were next to each other, with some space in between).
"Because some males started raping the females, they decided to split us up." she said.
"That's horrible..." I replied before looking in front of me.
"Do they ever allow you to leave this cage?" I asked.
"Yes, they do. They clean the cage every once awhile, it was cleaned yesterday. We know they need us pretty bad here, because one of the cleaners mentioned that we shouldn't get ill or sick and spread diseases because that would be disastrous for the research here..." he said.
"Did you ever try to escape?" I asked.
"Plenty of times, but they always lock the doors tight. We couldn't get through and shocking it didn't help." he sighed before looking down with a hopeless face again. "If we don't listen to them, they'll hurt us. They use certain things that will overload us, that really hurts..." he said as he shivered.
"You got experience?" I asked. The pikachu looked up and nodded before looking down again.
"Alright then..." I said softly as I pet him between his ears. He smiled a bit when I did that and purred softly. Immediately more pikachu wanted to get pet. They probably didn't receive too much attention in here. While I was stroking some random pikachu, I suddenly wondered where Cammy could be.
"Did you see a white pikachu in here? It's a female and she's completely white." I asked..
"White pikachu? Are you insane? We're yellow...!" one of the males said.
"I know, but Cammy is white and she's my pikachu." I said.
"Oh..." he replied.
"I haven't seen any new pikachu except you..." one of the pikachu said, looking at me.
"I'm a human." I said.
"But you speak pikachu." he smiled.
"I can even smell, see and hear as you guys..." I said.
"Can you... But how is that possible? We usually make fun of humans because they can't smell us but you say you can do everything like us?" he asked.
"You're joking." one of them said.
"Actually it's true." I said. "But you don't have to believe me. I know it sounds weird, but it really is true. That's also the reason they took me." I said as I nodded to the door. "They only know that I am with a group of pikachu, they don't know what I can do. They probably don't even know that I'm able to talk to you guys."
The pikachu still looked at me. Was I speaking the truth or was I just telling some random crap to him? He looked a little bit more before he offered me his tail.
"I'm Sparktail." he said.
"I'm Maurice." I said as I shook his tail. He looked at me.
"I don't have a tail. Even if I wanted to greet you I can't do it your way. This is the way how human greet." I said as I offered my hand again, but this time to his paw. He looked at my hand and grabbed it with both paws.
"No, no." I chuckled. "Just one paw." The pikachu lowered one of his paws. I closed my hand around his other and shook his paw.
"Pleasure to meet you." I chuckled. The pikachu looked at me and decided that what I had just done was weird. He shook his head and then everyone jumped as the door opened. There were three people entering the room. Two Team Rocket grunts and one man in a lab coat. He walked in front of the grunts and stood in the center of the room as the grunts closed the door and stood behind him.
"Go ahead." one grunt said. The man in the lab coat walked over to the cage.
"H-h-h-helllo Maurice." he said as I gave him a very nasty and dangerous glance. Something I learned from my pikachu-self. "You d-d-d-don't have to be afraid of m-me."
"Why would I be afraid of you. I can take you easily." I replied before looking straight into his eyes again. He tried to avoid eye-contact.
"G-g-good p-p-pikachu..." he said.
"I'm not a pikachu, I'm a human." I said with a loud voice.
"Y-y-yes of course you're a human..." he corrected himself quickly.
"Pika-pika..." one of the pikachu said. I quickly changed to pikachu so I could understand him. "Don't be harsh on him, he isn't here out of free will..." the pikachu said. I looked at the pikachu and back at the researcher.
"Where is Cammy?" I asked the researcher. He looked at the grunts to see if he could tell me. One of the grunts looked at him and gave him a quick nod.
"Cammy is safe, I can assure you." he said. "I would like you to come with me nice and without resisting." he added.
"Why? So you can do all kinds of research on my like I'm some kind of lab-pokémon? Just as these pikachu here that are locked in just to be taken and never come back? No thanks." I said. One of the grunts aimed his weapon and shot at me. Some kind of electricity boost went through me. I didn't know what it exactly was, but it did hurt a lot. I screamed and some pikachu also screamed as the beam that was shot wasn't really accurate, some unfortunate pikachu also got hit.
"Don't think you're everything here, you listen to what we say. Am I clear?" the grunt said. I looked at him with a destructive face. The researcher opened the cage. The pikachu were as far from the door as they could to prevent themselves from getting hit. As soon I had left the cage the door was closed when the door of the room opened. Another researcher, one without grunts around him entered the room holding a pikachu. The pikachu was male and didn't move. It's eyes were closed. The researcher opened the cage door and threw the pikachu inside before closing the door quickly again. Everything happened within a couple of seconds. The pikachu fell to the ground and hit some other pikachu which looked mad at the researcher. The researcher wasn't interested and didn't even watch where he threw the pokémon. Instead he looked at me.
"Ah, you must be that Maurice they're talking about." he said. "We'll see each other in a moment."
I did not reply, I just gave him an angry look. After the researcher left, the man in the lab coat went to the door and he went out of the room. The grunts pushed me forward with their guns, indicating that I should follow him. After the door was a inspection room, just as one as in the pokécenter, except this one wasn't as comfortable. We walked up to a blank wall. I looked at the wall and back at the grunts, but the man in the lab coat held his hand in front of the wall and it opened automatically. I looked at the door and walked through. We walked through the Team Rocket complex. Now I was sure of it: we were underground. There were no windows and there were long and square corridors in every direction. We walked across some corridors and then into another room.
The researcher from a couple of moments ago was standing in the room. He looked to a cage. As soon I entered the room he turned around and welcomed me.
"Ah, I was expecting you. Put him there, thank you." he said. I had to lay down onto some sort of chair you see at a doctor. New grunts arrived to escort the man in the lab coat away. He waved vaguely to the researcher before he left the room. I wasn't tied to anything but the researcher checked me with all kinds of devices. It took around an hour. It wasn't painful or anything, more like annoying. More researchers joined the first one and left the room later. In the end there were three of them left. The room was very interesting. There were pictures of pikachu anatomy on the wall and detailed things about the pikachu body.
"He's perfect." he concluded. Both of the other nodded and I was allowed to stand up again.
"Where is Cammy?" I asked.
"Cammy?" he asked.
"The white pikachu." I said, rolling my eyes.
"Oh, she. She's right here..." he said as he opened a cage. Cammy was in there, asleep and connected to more than a possible twenty wires and other things.
"What have you done to her...!" I said as he closed the cage again as I tried to get close but was stopped by the other researchers.
"Oh, nothing. We're just keeping her asleep for now and those are for food, water, electricity levels and other things for pikachu." he said. "But that's not important. Tomorrow we're gonna do some tests with you. Until then you're going back to the other pikachu." he said as he nodded to the guard. They pointed me to the door, but I didn't move.
"What are you gonna do with me and with Cammy?" I said.
"Just some tests. Nothing to worry about. You are perfect for us since you're used to being pikachu." he said. "That's all, now go back to your cage."
"Not until you tell me what you're gonna do to me!" I shouted. The grunt pointed his gun at me but waited.
"As I said, we're not gonna do anything. Some behaviour things and some tests with real electricity." he said. He was nervous. I could sense it with my pikachu-self. I should use these senses more often, they're so handy. They surely were planning more with me than what he just told me.
"Now, back to your cage." he said.
Escorted by two researchers and a guard we quickly made it to the room with the pikachu again. The researches waited outside while the grunt grabbed me and opened the door to the cage. He then pushed me in at such speed that I tripped and landed on a couple of unfortunate pikachu. I got up as he slammed the door behind me. I apologized to the pikachu I fell on. They all nodded or said something softly, probably that it didn't matter.
"Oh, he's in the female cage." one of the researchers said as they came in.
"Can't you see the difference between males and females?" the other chuckled.
"Whatever." the grunt said.
"Yeah, he'll be fine there." they said before they all left the room and closed the door. I looked at the door for a short time before I sat down in a corner of the cage and looked in front of me. Wondering what those tests would be I buried my head in my knees and closed my eyes.
"Pikachu?" I heard. One of the females pulled my jeans.
"I'm fine..." I said as I petted her and smiled. "I'm just wondering what there is gonna happen with me, they're gonna do tests on me tomorrow..." I said as I looked over to the males. Then I saw one new pikachu in the cage. He was looking at me with a strange glance, probably wondering what a human was doing here just as the other pikachu did earlier. It was the pikachu that was thrown in the cage when I was removed from it.
"Hey... Are you alright? You look pretty bad..." I said to him. He looked at me.
"So what they said was true! You can speak our language." he said. "Is it true you're from Tommy's colony?"
"Yes, I am." I said.
"They said you are the new colony leader... Why is a human our colony leader?" he asked.
"It's complicated. I am the co-leader, and Lukas is the true leader of our colony." I said.
"Lu-Lukas?" he said. After I said his name his ears perked up and he looked at me.
"Lukas is the leader of our colony?" he asked.
"Yes, why?" I asked.
"How is he?" he asked.
"He's fine, at least, I hope so, because Team Rocket beat him up pretty bad. But nothing nurse Joy cannot fix." I said, thinking back about the beating Lukas took back at the laboratory. The pikachu gave me an scared glance.
"It he also captured by Team Rocket?" he asked.
"Uhm, no, they left him behind." I said. I wondered why was Lukas so important to this pikachu?
"Good..." he sighed. "Everything better than this."
"Sorry to ask you, but why are you so interested in Lukas?" I asked.
"Lukas... Lukas is my son..." he said softly. I choked in my own spittle and coughed a couple of times.
"WHAT? You're his... father? But you were dead!" I said. "At least, that's what Lukas told me."
"Dead? Me?" he said. "Oh Lukas..." he said as he looked down.
"I... I never died... I got captured by Team Rocket a very long time ago and I'm here ever since. It's terrible in here. I tried to escape multiple times, but it never worked. I kind of gave up on it." he said as he looked down. "I thought Team Rocket had stopped collecting pikachu in our forest. When I got kidnapped, there were quite a lot of pikachu from our colony in here, but I'm one of the last ones left." he sighed. "The other ones got taken away from here and I don't know where they are now or if they're even alive..."
Now I'd think about it - Lukas never mentioned that they found a body or that they found his dad. He had disappeared when he was small. This pikachu must be here for years. I looked at the pikachu.
"I had never expected this to happen, running into Lukas' father..." I said. Lukas' dad stood before the bars with his paws around them looking to the ground.
"It was terrible, the first days I couldn't think about anything but Alissa and Lukas... I wanted to escape and get out but I kind of got used to the idea they weren't here. I still miss them, though..." he said.
"Alissa?" I asked.
"My mate..." he said. Some cold feeling went through me. I hoped that I didn't have to tell him that she die-
"How is she?" he asked.
"She... She..." I hesitated. "She died fighting for the colony." I said, looking down as well. His face turned pale. "She died in the same fight as Tommy, and then Lukas and I got chosen as colony leader." I said.
"No... Not Alissa..." he whispered. "Who killed her?"
"Snakes." I said, knowing that he would know exactly what happened. "Three versus one, they killed her right after Tommy."
"If I ever get out of here..." he said, his cheeks sparking.
"Too late, Lukas already did that. He took out their leader." I said with a wry smile. "That's kind of why we were chosen as leaders from the colony." Lukas dad looked at me like I was kidding him.
"I'm not kidding." I added. Lukas dad smiled a bit before turning to me again. "So how is he? Is he strong?" he asked.
"He is strong, yeah. He was quite weak before but since we started training he quickly got stronger. Let's see... Uhm... Oh, he and Lola have two pichu, Zack and Julie. Josh was killed by poachers..." I sighed.
"He... He has a mate and pichu?" his father replied.
"Yes he has." I replied.
"Pichu?" he repeated.
"Two pichu. One male and one female, Zack is just like him and Julie is just like Lola." I said chuckled.
"Thank you... I... I... I'm pleased to know that Lukas at least has a good... Good..." he said before he turned around and laid down in the other side of the cage, looking to the wall. He probably needed some time alone. He was gone far in thoughts. I kept watching him for a couple of minutes before I focussed my attention to the females in my cage. They were certainly interested in me because I was smelling like pichu. This triggered their instincts. After about thirty minutes I decided to go to sleep. I didn't know what the time was and I didn't bother either. I laid down inside the cage and got myself comfortable when the door opened again and three people came in. One threw another pikachu in my cage quickly followed by two pichu. They landed on the ground in a not very comfortable thud and quickly hid themselves in one of the corners of the cage. After that the people that came in threw some food towards the pikachu and placed two bowls of water in the cages. It was bread and pokéchew. It was really fighting for food, because everyone was hungry and everyone wanted to get as much as possible. In the end I was the only one having food left (as pikachu, pokéchew was pretty good) and the pikachu almost lynched me for it. After I had scared the shit out of them showing that I was electricity proof (the Team Rocket grunts were gone again, otherwise I wouldn't have done it) and that I could handle them, they stopped.
Just when I wanted to eat something again I saw that the female with the pichu did not get anything. The pichu were looking at me with very big eyes and the female rather looked away because she was scared from me. My pikachu side couldn't let it happen that there were sad pichu in this cage and just to not feel guilty about it, I moved towards them (the female pikachu wasn't happy, but as soon she saw I was gonna give the pichu food she was OK with it) and cornered myself so I could keep the other pikachu away from me while I fed the pichu and the female pikachu.
The pichu were quite scared of me because their mother was also scared of me. They tried to hide themselves behind her but I dragged them around their mother and placed them on my lap before I gave them some pokéchew. This made their fears disappear like it was nothing and a couple of minutes later, after we were done eating, I was sleeping with the pichu and the mother in the corner of the cage. The pichu were curled inside my arms which I used to sleep on, because the concrete wasn't a really comfortable place to sleep. The mother was next to me and her children, also inside my hands and against her children. Next to my arms were a couple of other pikachu. They had curled up against my body and decided that sleeping was probably the best to do for now. I noted that there wasn't a single pikachu sleeping on his own. They all either slept with each other or with me. They never slept alone. The same thing for the males, these also slept against each other, not a single one was left alone. That's the difference between humans and pikachu I guess. With one last check of the pichu I felt asleep.
It didn't take long for me to wake up again. My body felt stiff. I moved my body a bit and placed my head on a different place on my arms. The pichu were still far away in pichu-dreamland and I gently placed my head against them again before I tried to fall asleep again. It took me a long time to fall asleep again though. I got my phone out. It was 2AM... I sighed and curled my arms around the pichu and finally fell asleep.
In the morning I woke up from two Team Rocket grunts. They stood before my cage and shouted that I should wake up. The pichu shivered when I lifted my head and sat up. They quickly fled to their mother when I was taken from the cage and brought over to another room. There I was checked quickly by some men before they threw me in another jail cell, or so it looked. I tripped again because they pushed me in way too fast to handle. I stood up and tried to unlock the door but of course they had locked it. I could hear some speech through the door though. They were talking about an experiment, but I couldn't really follow them properly. I looked into my jail cell and gasped. I wasn't alone in here!
There was a boy sitting in the corner. He was in the dark part of the cell, one where it was shady. The boy was probably aged around seven or eight. He was wearing some old clothes, a jeans that was ripped halfway, a yellow shirt and some old shoes and socks. His hair had a short to middle length and he was sitting in the corner with his knees pulled towards his chest and his arms around his legs. He was looking at me like I was the most scary thing in the world.
"What the heck, why is Team Rocket kidnapping children...!" I thought before I moved closed to the boy. But, the boy only tried to crawl away further in the corner, trying to get away from me. I sat down so I wasn't that huge anymore compared to him. He stopped to crawl away, but still looked at me with scary eyes.
"There's no need to be scared of me...!" I said as I moved closer. The boy gritted it's teeth and growled. That the heck, I never saw a human growling...! What was this!
"I'm not one of them!" I said as I stopped moving. The boy took another position, still giving me warning signs that I shouldn't come closer. I looked at him and inspected him a bit. His moves were unfamiliar... He moved kind of strange for a human, his moves weren't natural.
"Can you understand me?" I asked as I took a step backwards and sat down as I tried to win the confidence of the child. He looked at me and didn't answer. His glance was firm and I noticed it was full of... Full of... Heck, this boy almost looked like... But that couldn't be... It just couldn't... That wasn't possible, was it...? I switched to pikachu.
"Can you understand me like this...?" I asked, this time in pikachu language. The eyes of the boy turned bigger as he looked at me. He looked at me and checked me all over.
"Y-y-yes..." he whispered softly. I couldn't believe my eyes. Another human capable of speaking pikachu!
"Who are you?" I asked kindly as I sat down and moved a bit closer.
"I am... I'm Sparktail..." he said. Great, another Sparktail.
"And you?" Sparktail asked.
"I'm Maurice..." I smiled. I almost didn't want to ask, but I did anyway.
"Are you a human...?" I asked.
"I don't know..." he said softly. "I... I remember that I... That I was pikachu and they... They made me sleep and... I woke up and I was here and..." he said confused.
"And you were human..." I finished.
"Yes..." he said. Alright, human that speaks pikachu language and that just said he was a pikachu, this wasn't possible. "But it's terrible... I want to be a pikachu again...!"
"Can you talk human?" I asked, changing back to my human-self. The boy said something in pikachu language and then he said something that I couldn't understand. I quickly changed back to pikachu.
"I can only speak pikachu... I can speak something strange but they don't seem to understand it..." he said. I was now next to him and allowed him to sniff my scent. He immediately did this and he looked me over. I decided to test if he was speaking the truth about the pikachu thing and I scratched him under his chin, something all pikachu like. He closed his eyes and groaned softly, something that looked like purring. Then I scratched behind his ears, this also triggered the same response. The boy then curled himself up and crawled in my lap where he wanted to be stroked even more. It was quite bizarre: This boy, had it really been a pikachu? Had he really been one? I couldn't believe my eyes.
"Can't you walk?" I asked when he crawled to a better position. He shook his head.
"I can't walk, I can only crawl. I keep falling if I try to walk as a human..." he sighed.
"Can I see it?" I said as I removed him from my lap and stood up. I offered him my hand and helped him getting up. He stood very wobbly on his feet. I released his hand and immediately grabbed him to prevent him from falling backwards. He thanked me and then tried to walk one or two steps. It was just like a baby trying to walk, but... Different. You could see that this boy had experience with walking, but at the same time hadn't. It was really weird to see. He also didn't walk like a baby or adult would, but at a strange very different sort of pace, which I could recognize as a walking pikachu, if you knew what you were watching. I knew for sure now, this had been a pikachu. He was captured just after he had evolved to a pikachu, or so he told me. I couldn't do anything but believe him. He was showing every pikachu-behaviour that I could think of and my pikachu-self also believed this was a pikachu. His smell was too much pikachu to be a human. He was human for around two weeks now, or something like that, and he had to do tests every single day. The people from Team Rocket treated him well, because he was the first experiment to have success instead of failure, or so he heard.
It didn't take long before the door opened again.
"Maurice, come with me." a man in lab coat said firmly. Behind him I could see Team Rocket grunts. I listened to the guy and stood up, said goodbye in human to the boy, and walked into the laboratory room. I had to sit down on a chair and I had to shut up. The researcher did another test with me. After that, he escorted me in some kind of chair. I had to sit down in it. The laborant took a step backwards and walked back to the computer screen. He nodded at the panel and showed something to another researcher. People in white lab coats walked in and out of the room constantly, while others checked different things.
"What are you gonna do with me?" I asked again, but nobody answered. Then, I had to sit still, and after I refused and got beaten up by a grunt, I sat in the chair and waiting for what was gonna happen. The chair moved upwards a bit, before a glass dome closed all over my head. It went quickly, within one second it was closed and sealed.
"What the... What are you gonna do!" I said when I tried to get up but noticed I was restrained to the chair. I could hear a certain gas entering the dome, you could hear the typical siss that it makes. I tried to get out of the chair but nothing worked, I was trapped. I already felt dizzy, and I felt that I was passing out. I switched to pikachu side in the hope my pikachu side wouldn't pass out, but the switch failed. Probably because my pikachu side was already passed out. I groaned when the feeling got worse and my hearing started to fade. I could still hear something but it was like it was in a huge echoing room... My eyes started to close and with one last groan I passed out.
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