Guess who's back! Sorry for the loooooooooooong wait time, but school is taking my time. Thanks for the reviews and thanks Pichufan for beta reading. Without any further ado, let's move on with the story. I hope you guys enjoy it and please, please leave a review!
I groaned softly. I remembered the chair, the gas... The strange smell, I had fallen asleep and... Now I was here. My eyes wouldn't open. I felt faint and weak. At least I had a comfortable place to lay down. It felt soft. My head was on my arms and under that was a soft underground. Probably a nest or something. Thinking this automatically made me aware that I was in pikachu mode. I slowly opened my eyes. The room was kind of bright and I could see sunlight coming through one of the windows. The windows were small and located on the top of the room, almost against the ceiling.
I was on my belly and I looked up. The bed I was on looked huge. The room also looked huge. I shook my head a bit and looked sideways. I was in quite a comfortable room. There was a chair, a normal bed and a light I could turn on and off, as far I could see. I sat up. At least, that's what I tried, because I immediately fell down again. I fell on my back and rolled on my side. Wondering what this had to mean I rolled on my belly and sat up again. Using all my powers I could keep my body up. It didn't feel like I was used to. Like I had gained weight. Like something had changed. I looked down and gasped and fell back on my back again. I immediately rolled on my side. I sat up again, this time keeping my balance. I looked down. My feet were gone, or rather, they had shrunk. I was looking at two small feet. I looked at my hands. Instead, I was looking at two paws. My whole body was covered in yellow fur and looking behind me confirmed I also had a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, which wiggled happily. I touched my right ear and I instinctively moved it.
"No doubt... I turned into a pikachu..." I said as I moved my paws through my fur and touched my feet, my own paws and my ears.
"I'm naked..." I thought when I looked at my body again. But I had fur now, didn't I? I looked around and saw a mirror. It was hanging above a sink next to a toilet. I was in some kind of jail cell, or so it appeared. I stood up, trying not to fall when I stood on my feet. I wanted to walk to the side of the bed. Instinctively I dropped onto all fours and walked to the side of the bed. As soon I realised I was walking on both paws and feet I lost control of the way I was walking. I confused my paws and feet and with a soft thump I felt on the bed as I failed to walk further.
"Arceus. How do you walk like this?" I thought when I sat up and dropped onto all fours again. I walked to the side of the bed successfully.
"Just don't think while waking and it goes all by itself." I thought. I looked down the bed. As human, this height was like nothing. But as pikachu, this was almost four times my own height. I looked down and a certain fear of heights came upon me. Maybe if I switched to human.
"I'm a human." I thought. Blurry thoughts entered my mind. Now I was in this pikachu body, my mind control was kind of switched around. Instead of my human side controlling my pikachu side, my pikachu side was controlling my human side. I tried a couple of times more and managed to switch to human side.
"The fuck..." I thought when I looked down. The bed looked even higher now. I tried to think clear.
"Alright, I'm a pikachu..." I thought as I looked around again. Some kind of panic got over me. I was a pikachu. What had they done to me? I sighed as my pikachu mind kicked in. I shook my body like I was wet. I felt much better when I did this, like I shook all my problems away. I looked to the ground and jumped down. I landed on all fours and I looked to the bed, which looked like a wall now. It was so high... Did I really jump this? I looked up to the sink. There was a mirror up there and I knew I could check myself out in there. My human side knew, at least. I looked up and wondered what I should do. I should be able to jump this with ease... I saw Lukas jump higher heights all day. Getting myself ready to jump (although it wasn't me but my pikachu side that was in control) I crouched, before I leaped up the sink. Although, that was the plan, as I flew right past it and stopped moving up around one meter above the sink. I looked down when I realised I was falling down. I struggled in the air, trying to get myself in a proper landing. Failing miserably, I felt on the sink hard. I whined softly and slid to the drain as the sink was round to make the water flow to the drain automatically. I got up and watched the damage I caused to myself.
"How could I jump that high..." I wondered as I looked into the mirror that was on the sink and attached to the wall. A surprised and bright yellow creature was looking back from the mirror. A pikachu. Me. Confused I touched the mirror. The mirror felt cold but comfortable. My fur filtered the most of the cold. My pikachu side was wondering how there could be another pikachu in here that copied my moves, but my human side quickly told it what a mirror was and how it worked. I looked at myself. Two bright red cheeks and bright yellow fur. I looked at my ears and moved them in amazement. I also moved my tail. It wiggled happily behind my back. I looked in the mirror again before I smiled and sparked my cheeks. Finally my pikachu-self could find the electric source it was so desperate to find in my human body. Finally it could use the electricity to show itself off a bit.
"Let me do this." something in my head said. I sparked my cheeks again and created some kind of electric ball all around me. It was quite cool to look at. I smiled in the mirror and then jumped down the sink. Before I knew I had landed on the ground.
"Wow, I really should trust that pikachu instinct more..." I thought as I gave it some more control. I sniffed the air and tried to pick up scents. I could smell humans, probably Team Rocket members that put me here. I jumped back on the bed and looked upwards to the windows. There was certainly sunlight coming through and I looked for a way out. Maybe I could jump it... There was a small ledge up there. I looked to the window and got ready to jump. I lowered my body. The height was probably three or four meters, but my pikachu side didn't know metric units. It just guessed if it could make the jump or not and it tried if it had enough confidence. I lowered my body, checked the height again and used my back legs to jump all the way up. I saw the ledge coming closer when suddenly my speed was all gone. I could grab the ledge quickly with my paws and gasped as I looked down. Falling down this wouldn't be good. I started climbing up, which, thanks to my knowledge of climbing (both as human and pikachu side) wasn't that hard. I panted.
"That was scary..." I thought as I looked out of the window. The sun greeted me with warm rays and I purred softly. It felt so good as a pikachu. I closed my eyes and enjoyed it. The sun felt all different when it touched my fur instead compared to my human skin. I opened my eyes I could see some grass and some trees. This place was barely above ground, because the place I was standing was at ground level. My view was blocked by the trees, the grass, bushes and grey concrete on the background. The complex was gigantic...
Wondering what was gonna happen next I decided that this place would be a nice place to lay down. I lay down on the floor and in the sun and closed my eyes and almost fell asleep immediately. My sleep didn't take long though. I woke up a small time later. I heard sounds. I looked at the door and as I expected and heard, a member of Team Rocket came in. It was a female and she looked like a nurse, and not like some kind of bad guy. I decided to keep still and to do like I wasn't here.
"Alright, let's see... Newcomer..." she said as she was looking on her clipboard. Her voice wasn't stern, more like soothing. Apparently some people with feelings did exist inside Team Rocket. She looked at the bed and noticed I wasn't here.
"Shawwwwwn, did you move the new one?" she called towards the door, which was still open.
"No I didn't, he was still asleep an hour ago." I heard from the door.
"Then where did he go?" she replied.
"He isn't here?" I heard from the door.
"No, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you." she chuckled.
"Linda, I'm not in the mood for jokes." Shawn said as he entered the room as well. He was a male from around thirty-five years. Linda was a bit younger, probably. He looked to the bed. He then looked around and at the wall and the immediately looked at me. My shade, falling on the wall, had told him my location and my ear was visible prominently on the wall making a pikachu shade on it.
"There he is." Shawn said, pointing towards me.
"Wow, he made it up there?" she said. "That's quite extraordinary."
"Indeed it is. I've never seen that happening to newcomers." he replied.
"Hello little pikachu...!" Linda said as she smiled at me. "Are you coming down to us?"
I remained where I was. I felt perfectly fine up here and I wasn't planning on going down again anytime soon.
"Piiiiiiiiii-pika-pika-pika-pikachu." Linda said as she held her hand as close to me as she could.
"Seriously, what is this woman up to." I thought as I moved my head and looked at her before looking to Shawn. Shawn left the room and Linda tried to lure me down again with all kinds of pointless arguments. She was certainly not the brightest. Not in my opinion at least. She got herself into all kinds of strange movements and talked to me with a very high pitched voice, as if I was a baby. Really, what does she think I am? My human side laughed hard at the thoughts of my pikachu side, but at the same time I could perfectly understand it. All humans treated pikachu like babies. Like they were the cutest things in the world. I knew from myself I did the same if I was in the right mood and I also knew that Lukas didn't like when I did that. Now I was confronted with it myself and I understood perfectly what Lukas meant.
"Alright, are you done with luring him down?" Shawn said as he came in. I looked at Shawn with an expression that said 'what the heck do I have to do with this' and he was looking at Linda with the same face expression.
"He just thinks you're crazy." Shawn said.
"What? Pikachu love this." Linda replied as she tried to reach me.
"No, pikachu don't love this. Did you forget what we learned at Pikademy or something?" he said.
"Alright, alright..." Linda replied.
"Pikachu, you come here right now or we'll get you down." Linda said. Fine. Let them get me. Those Team Rockets people... I'm already sick of it. My mind was currently in pikachu mode which didn't had as much thoughts going, but my human side was currently furious at Team Rocket for changing me in the first place and panicked in the second because I didn't had a clue what I should do. Would they understand it was me? Would they understand me at all? Who were these people? And what was this place? And why and how did I change? All that kind of questions, as well as my panicked feeling were all pushed aside by my pikachu-self. I still had to get used to this body and as long that was happening my pikachu body had the lead. My two minds had started cooperating long before I had changed into this pikachu. It took some time, but after a month or so after my pokéball experience I could switch between both without even thinking. In normal life this would go almost unnoticed, but it took quite a time before my mind, head, and body were ready to accept that I was 'controlled' by more than one mind.
But for now, the pikachu side was in control most of the time, and not surprisingly, because I was one. It didn't really take long for me to adapt this because I already had one in my mind. Literally.
"Pikachu, you're coming down right now." Shawn said on a very firm tone. This made me look at him. My pikachu side felt nothing for jumping down. It felt nothing for these people. My human side wasn't amused either, I didn't want to make these grunts get me just like that. I remained where I was and stuck my tongue out to them.
"Alright then." Shawn said as I did that.
"What is it with those pikachu lately... They give them to us just like that and they tell us to take care of them until they're normal again. Almost all of them died within one week and just one survived it, what did we do wrong?" Linda said.
"I don't know, but I'm quite certain they are trying something new on these pikachu. Really, it's not your fault that female died last week." Shawn said while patting her back. "The only thing they tell us is that they may not escape at all cost and that we should care properly for them until they're behaving like normal pikachu."
"Wait, you guys don't know I'm a human?!" I said.
"Yes, you should come down." Shawn said to me with an annoyed glance.
"No, do you know was human earlier?" I said.
"He sounds cute..." Linda chuckled.
"You think every pikachu is cute." Shawn said as he got a broom. He raised it and used it to squish me between the broom and the wall. I growled at the broom. My pikachu side focussed on the broom side but my human side knew I had to focus on the human holding it. I ignored the soft bashing from the broom to get me down and released a small thundershock to Shawn. My first thundershock...! I was a bit proud of myself when I noticed it was my first attack as a pikachu. Shawn took a couple of steps back and dropped the broom.
"He's getting annoying." he said as he grabbed the broom again and this time slammed it into me a lot harder, making me whine a bit.
"Come on, get down here." he said as he slammed into me again. It wasn't hard or painful, just as annoying as hell. He then got the broom behind my bottom and he smiled. He pushed me off the ledge. I looked down and tried to resist, but my paws slid off the ledge and I tumbled down.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" I shouted as I fell down. I was caught by Linda, who was waiting for me under the ledge.
"Got ya." she said as she lifted me and started rubbing my cheeks in a really unpleasant way. She cuddled with me, but I didn't like it at all.
"You're a cute pikachu...!" she said as she continued and touched me everywhere. Kind of the same way I did with Cammy at night when she snuggled up to me, but at a very unpleasant way. She had grabbed me at my arms and I couldn't stand on anything making me hang from her arms. This wasn't a nice position at all.
"Let me gooooo..." I said in a very angry tone. One that would immediately trigger a normal person to release me. I growled at Linda while Shawn placed the broom back where it belonged. He looked at Linda and sighed.
"Linda... Stop that." he said as he came walking up to me and grabbed me from Linda. He placed me on his chest and placed his arm under my feet so I could stand on it. He then placed his other arm around my back and gently ruffled through my fur and gently scratched my ears. The feeling that it gave me was simply amazing. My body relaxed completely as Shawn scratched my fur and my back. He then turned back to my ears and scratched softly. Then he stopped, but my body wanted more. I started to rub my cheeks against his hand, requesting more attention. I cooed softly when he scratched me again. He carried me exactly like I did with other pikachu when I was human. This position was much nicer and much more comfortable. My ears stood up and I could sniff Shawns scent. I did so and he smelled quite nice... For a male. Mostly the females had the best smells, but I liked Shawn more than Linda, which I had checked already when she was holding me. Her scent wasn't normal... I guess she uses too much perfume.
"I don't know if it was a good idea to get you working here... You don't seem like capable of working with those guys." Shawn said as he got his arms comfortable around me by throwing me in the air a bit and replacing his arms quickly and immediately catching me. I looked at Linda and at Shawn. These people didn't seem too bad. I expected them to be harsh on me and to be like heartless, but they weren't at all.
"Awww, but... I love them...!" Linda said.
"I understand, but you'll have to treat them the way they like it and not the way you like it." Shawn chuckled. "Don't mind her... She's new and she just finished her study. She needs more experience with pokémon." he said to me.
"It's alright, but pay attention to the pikachu. A pikachu will signal you when he doesn't like the way you treat him. He was growling at you, that means you're doing something wrong." Shawn said to Linda while he scratched my ears one more time.
"Alright alright... I will..." she replied.
"What do we have to do with this one?" Shawn said.
"Uhm, let's see..." Linda said as she watched her clipboard.
"Full medical check and we have to report the outcome." she said as she placed the papers back on the clipboard and looked at me and Shawn.
"A full medical check?" Shawn said. "Doesn't look very usefull to me but let's do it."
A medical check? That would take awhile... I remember that from the pokécenter I used to work before I entered the pikachu colony. Full medical check took about one hour where nurse Joy would check the body of the pokémon for every possible fracture, wound, or other things. Sometimes even with...
"And with X-ray." Shawn said. "Jeez, they want a full examination on this one..."
"Why? He looks fine to me..." Linda said as she pet me between my ears.
"I don't know, but let's do it. The sooner the better." Shawn said as my belly grumbled loudly.
"Someone's hungry!" he said as he looked down to me. "No wonder, you've been out for at least twenty-four hours..." he said. Twenty-four hours? Was I gone for that long?
"Linda, would you get some pokéchew and some water for me?" Shawn said as we entered a room with medical equipment. The smell in here was strange... He placed me on a table. It had some green kind of stuff on it, but it felt soft and comfortable. He turned around and fetched some stuff he was gonna use to check me over. I looked around and I saw some cages. They were all empty, except one. One contained a pikachu, a female. She had been awakened by our entry and was now standing with her paws against the bars and looking at us. She looked at me and at Shawn. I looked back at her and we looked each other in the eyes. She actually looked pretty... pretty! My human side interrupted my pikachu side with some kind of annoyed thoughts.
"Mr. Pikachu falls in love with the very first female it sees. Great. This is gonna be fun." it thought. Whatever. Linda came in and placed the food and water next to me. Shawn placed some stuff next to me he needed for the examination. He noticed that I was looking at the pikachu in the cage.
"Oh, you've seen Nikki." he said. Nikki? So her name was Nikki. I stopped looking at her when I noticed a very nice smell right next to me and I noticed the food. Happily I started eating it. The pokéchew actually tasted really good as a pikachu! Better than when I was in my human form. It still felt a bit strange to really be a pikachu... I jumped when Nikki slammed the bars of her cage back and forth. She looked at me and then looked at Shawn with her ears completely folded sideways and hanging tail.
"I want food too...!" she said softly.
"You hungry too?" Shawn said. "Maybe we should introduce you two to each other."
"I'll get some pokéchew for her as well." Linda said. "She didn't have any yet today."
"I asked you to feed her! Why you didn't do it?" Shawn asked.
"Because I was about to give her the pokéchew and then he woke up." she said, nodding at me. "That pokéchew was hers."
"Oh... Well, hurry up, she's hungry!" he chuckled as he opened her cage and got her out. He picked her up and placed her next to me. I didn't care, I was eating. The pokéchew was much more important than her. She stood next to me and looked at me.
"Don't worry, your food will be right here." Shawn said to her as he placed his hand on her head and slowly started to massage her head and her ears. She purred happily. Linda came in with another feeder with pokéchew.
"There you go!" she said as she placed the feeder next to Nikki. Nikki immediately started eating as well. After a while we were both done (Nikki ate quicker than me) and I stood up. After sipping some water, I looked around.
"You done? Then we'll start the examination." Shawn said. I drooped my ears. Nothing inside me really wanted to have an examination right now. I wanted to sleep, explore some stuff, play.
"No worries, it doesn't hurt." Shawn said.
"Tell me something..." I said.
"What... You know what that medical thingy is?" Nikki said. I turned around and looked at her.
"Yes, I do. They're gonna check you over and they're gonna do all kinds of stuff with your body and they're gonna make some photo's with X-ray." I said. Nikki turned her head.
"Really? How do you know?" she asked.
"Because I..." I said. "...because I was human."
Nikki looked at me and pulled a funny face.
"Human? But you're a pikachu!" she chuckled. "By the way, you smell nice..." she said as she came closer and sniffed me. She stood closer and purred at me.
"I think Nikki likes him." Linda said as she looked at Nikki trying to make avances with me. How shall we call him?
"Don't know... What do you like?" Shawn asked her.
"Maurice!" I said. "My name is Maurice!" I repeated while waving my arms.
"He likes that we're giving him a name!" Shawn said.
"My name is Maurice! You don't need to make up a name!" I said.
"Really?" Shawn said. That's really interesting. I knew he didn't understand one thing I said to him, which was very, very annoying and very, very stressing.
"MY NAME IS MAURICE!" I shouted. Shawn took a small step back.
"Hey, no yelling." he said with a firm tone.
"I DON'T YELL, YOU JUST DON'T LISTEN!" I shouted as I jumped and waved my arms.
"He wants to tell us something, that's clear." Linda said as she looked at me.
"Yep, but the big problem is... What does he want to tell us." Shawn said as he crouched before me so that our eyes were on the same height.
"What's the matter buddy." he asked while looking in my eyes. I just stood there trying to figure out how I could tell them something.
"I just want to tell you that... I'm human! I'm Maurice! I'm one of yours...!" I said, knowing that it probably was no use. Shawn sighed.
"I can't understand you... Is there something you want to tell us?" he said as he looked at Linda. I quickly nodded my head.
"Alright, there is something." Shawn said as I looked around. I spotted a computer. Maybe I could send them a message by typing it on the computer! I jumped from the table and walked over to the computer. Shawn followed me as I jumped the table with the computer. I looked at the screen. There was some kind of window showing.
"Could you make me able to use it?" I said, pointing at the computer.
"You wanna use the computer?" Shawn said unsurely. I nodded. The pointing had done it's work. I should rely in easier communication until I could tell them everything I had on my mind right now. It was still a strange feeling for me to be a pikachu and now my human mind was in charge, but when my pikachu mind would return in charge I'd behave entirely different. I was still getting used to everything and very unpredictable.
"Uhm, alright then..." Shawn said as he sat behind me. His arms went past me and he typed something and he logged on. Then he stopped and waited for me to do something. I looked at the keyboard and typed something.
"Can you type words?" Shawn asked as he saw me doing my stuff. "Wait a second, I'll open up Word."
He opened Microsoft Word.
"Alright, you can type now." he said. I nodded and looked at the keyboard.
"Alright..." I thought as I watched the letters. "I... am... Maurice..." I said as I looked over the letters again. But the letters had no meaning to me. They were just some kind of symbols on a keyboard. I looked at the keyboard again and I saw the 'M'. The first letter from my name. Happily I typed the 'M' and then looked at the keyboard again. I just started typing in random stuff.
"I... Am... Maurice..." I typed while saying the words out loud. The typing went quicker than expected. I was done and I looked at Shawn. He looked back at me.
"Pq... grwefa... mnbejaf...?" he said with some hassle while giving me a questioning glare. I looked at the letters on the screen and then at Shawn.
"No, no!" I said as I shook my head and pointed at the monitor. "I am Maurice!"
"I don't know what you mean..." Shawn said with his hands around Nikki, who had jumped his lap and was watching me with interest. I pressed some random buttons on the keyboard and looked at Shawn again.
"Asdfghj?" he said. I saw he was getting fed up. "You can't use a computer, are you just trying to prevent me from doing stuff with you?" he said. I quickly shook my head and sighed unhappily. Shawn placed an arm around me.
"It won't hurt...!" he said with a smile. Linda took Nikki from him as Shawn picked me up and placed me back on the table. He scratched me behind my ears and got me ready for the medical check. Nikki was placed back in the cage and told to keep it calm, but they didn't close her cage so she could come out whenever she wanted. Almost immediately she jumped back out and joined me on the table.
"You're funny. I didn't know you could use a computer." she chuckled.
"I can't. Not anymore... I wanted to tell them something but I don't understand it..." I said.
"Well I do neither, so that proves you're a pikachu and not a human!" she said happily as she rubbed her cheek against mine.
"Nikki, give me some room please." Shawn said. He was busy checking my body from top to bottom. He was currently at my left arm and he was softly pinching it and looking if my bones were on the right spot and if they weren't hurt in any way. Nikki took a couple of steps back and watched the whole process with interest.
"They also did this with me." she said as she watched as Shawn placed me on my belly and started to check my head and ears. My ears moved frantically when he touched them. Using one hand to keep it still, he checked my ears one by one and moved on to my tail. I sat back up as he continued the work and Nikki came closer again.
"Really?" I asked.
"Yep. I didn't like it when they touched me everywhere..." she said softly. "But when I started squirming they put me down and held me... I thunderbolted him and then they tied me before they continued." she said before she nodded at Shawn, who just put his hand under my chin and forced me to look away from her. I shook my head and tried to get away from Shawn but he grabbed me and forced me to look at him again.
"You're... Annoying..." I growled as him.
"I know you don't like it-" he said in response to my growling "-but it is for your own good."
"Sure..." I replied, still groaning.
"So when did you get here?" I asked Nikki as Shawn moved over to my ears and the back of my head.
"Me? Don't know... Maybe a couple of days ago..." she said.
"Did you life in a wild pikachu colony or something?" I asked as Shawn moved down my belly with his hand and felt my ribs.
"I don't know..." she said as she looked a bit vague.
"All I remember is that I woke up and that I was here somehow." Nikki said as she looked at me and smiled.
"Wait." I said as I got up from my back. "You don't know where you came from?"
"Uhm... No." she smiled.
"Hey, get back down, I wasn't finished." Shawn said as he pushed me over and continued his investigation.
"I'm almost done." Shawn said.
"Shawn?" Linda said.
"Yeah?" he replied.
"They'll come and fetch them both within an hour." she said as she walked in. "She just called."
"Oh, then we should leave X-ray out." Shawn said.
"We can still make that." Linda said as she looked on her watch. "If it's free."
"Yeah, let's do it." Shawn said as he picked me up.
"I can walk myself, thank you." I said as I struggled to get out of his grab.
"No, you cannot go, I'm holding you, you may not escape at any cost." he said. "Linda, take Nikki or put her in her cage."
"I'll take her, she seems to like him." she said as she picked up Nikki, this time the same way as Shawn.
"Oh this is definitely better!" Linda said as she carried Nikki behind Shawn. Shawn entered a room which I recognised as an X-ray room. The smell in there was strange too. I was tied to a table (much to my pikachu-side-displeasure, but my human mind kept my pikachu side silent) to prevent me from moving so the photo could be taken properly. After the picture was made I was released again and picked up by Shawn who took me to a third room. Nikki and Linda followed quickly. They put both of us inside a small playground while they got the photo's from the computer and printer. Nikki quickly started playing, jumping some stuff and doing some basic exploring. I wasn't interested in that, even though my pika-side surely wanted to explore this playground.
"Can't we explore?!" I heard inside my head.
"Why should we... I'm much more interested in my photo." my human side said to my pikachu side. And that was true - since I had a small medical background I was certainly interested in my X-ray. I could detect major differences on the photos, like big fractures. Nurse Joy had showed me some X-rays earlier and it required much skill and much knowledge of the anatomy of a pokémon to spot exactly what was the case. In case of pikachu I knew the basics and I was just interested in my photo.
"Awww but Nikki is..."
"...a nice female, I know." my human side finished kind of annoyed.
"Ever since you saw her you're in love with her, aren't you?" my human side said.
"Of course! She's a pretty female!" the pika-part answered. "Maybe she even wants to mate!"
"ERHM, excuse me?!" my human side replied.
"Well why not?" my pikachu side replied and forced my body to look at her. The pikachu hormones were raging through my body, I could feel it. Happily my human side wasn't affected by them, in other words, it could still think clearly. My human side took control and forced my pikachu side to jump the fence that separated me from Linda and Shawn who were now looking at my photo. A nice X-ray from my entire body was standing on the special light that made them able to check it. I jumped over the fence and then walked over to Shawn. He noticed that I had 'escaped' and looked at me.
"Hey hey hey, don't get out." he said as he ducked and wanted to pick me up. I evaded him with ease and quickly climbed his trousers as he got up. I continued my way up, using my claws to get all the way up to his shoulder at lightening speed. It took my just a couple of seconds to get there. Shawn and Linda looked at me.
"So you want to stay with me?" Shawn chuckled. "Well that's alright I guess."
I looked at both of them before I gazed at my photo. I watched a couple of seconds.
"That's you!" Linda said at a high voice. "That's your bones, those are inside you." she said as she softly pinched my arm to show me where my bones where.
"Don't pinch me..." I growled annoyed, not only because of the pinching but also because of the voice. I looked at the photos again before I jumped the table that was standing against the wall and just under the X-ray photo's. I watched my own photo while Shawn was also watching it and making some notes. My pikachu sides napetost was gone already. It was like playing around in my head causing confusion.
I suddenly noticed something strange on the photo. One thing was strange about the photo. Something near my leg. I looked around and saw only one of those strange dots. I looked at my left leg. The thing was small and I couldn't see it from outside.
"Hey Shawn..." I said. I heard the words left my mouth as "Pikachu-pi..."
"Shawn...!" I said. Shawn now looked up and watched me.
"Something wrong?" he asked. I used my paw to point at the photo.
"There's something strange on it." I said.
"Yeah, that's you!" he said smiling and nodding at the photo before continuing his notes.
"Shawn!" I said again. Now he looked immediately. This was so frustrating. Nobody understood me.
"I think he's trying to tell you something..." Linda said.
"You think so?" Shawn said as he looked at me again.
"He's acting so strange... I've been watching him for a couple of minutes now but he isn't acting... Normal... Not like other pikachu I've seen." she said. "Give him a chance. That trick with the computer was something quite extraordinary. I was surprised he understood you had to log on that thing to make it work."
"Well, OK." Shawn said, sighing, not really wanting to believe this.
"You want to tell anything...?" he said to me like he had asked before, but a lot more annoyed this time.
"Yes!" I said, nodding and pointing at the photo.
"The photo?" he said. "What's with that?"
"There's something strange on it!" I said as I pointed my paw at the photo again. I was standing against the wall trying to reach it, but it was too high.
"You wanna point at something?" he said as he looked at Linda and picked me up to held me in front of the photo. Great, now I could point properly. I pointed at the odd point in my leg.
"What the fuck..." Shawn said as he looked at me and at the photo.
"That's an... What is that?" he said as Linda came close too. He put me down as both examined the photo closer.
"That looks like... I don't know..." Linda said. "But what I think is even stranger... How can a pikachu know that this is something strange on a X-ray photo?" she said as she looked at me. I just pulled an annoyed face.
"Indeed..." Shawn said as he looked at the photo and at me.
"Can I check you?" he asked. I looked at him and quickly understood. I sat down and put my left leg in front of him and pointed at it.
"You mean this?" I said. Shawn blinked a couple of times with his eyes.
"What the..." he said as he pinched himself.
"A pikachu with medical knowledge?" he said astonished. Linda started at me and Shawn did the same.
"But... How can he..." she said...
"Are you gonna look at my leg or what?" I said as I moved my leg to make them focus on it.
"Oh yeah, that thing." Shawn said. Let me feel..." He felt my leg at the exact position where the object should be.
"Oh, I think I know." he said as he reached under the table and got some kind of white stick. He moved it past my leg when the device beeped.
"Looks like this pikachu is chipped." he said as he read the information from his scanner.
"Chipped? That meant they could probably track me anywhere I go." I thought.
"Let's see... Pikachu... Yes... Male... Yes..." he said as he checked some more things when I got up and sat in front of my X-ray again. I looked at it. I couldn't find anything weird anymore.
"His information is correct, as far I know." Shawn said. "The only thing is... How the hell does he know medical things? He probably can understand us too perfectly... Can you?" he said as he looked at me. I nodded my head.
"But... How? Do you have a name?" he asked. I nodded again.
"No wonder that you tried that computer trick." he said. "You're obviously smarter than an average pikachu... Are you?" he said as he looked at me. I nodded again.
"At least you can answer some questions." he said when there was a buzzing sound.
"Oh yes, right, they were coming to pick you two up." Shawn said as Linda moved to the door.
"Wait, what?" I said, kind of scared.
"They're coming to fetch you and Nikki." Shawn said. He must have understood what I said because of my tone of voice. "No need to be scared."
"Nikki!" he said to the female in the playground. She was grooming herself on top of one of the thingies in there. Her ears perked up as she heard her name and she quickly came to Shawn. He picked her up and placed her in front of one of the travel baskets on the desk that Linda had prepared. He also placed me on the same table when the door opened and the same female grunt entered that had kidnapped me earlier. I remembered her face. She wasn't wearing any of her Rocket clothing, just normal everyday clothes. I switched my mind to pikachu immediately and got ready for the worst.
"Hello there Shawn, how are you?" she said as she shook his hand.
"I'm great Faia, thank you." he replied.
"And how are my pikachu doing?" she replied.
"Not very well, I'm afraid." he said. "Sadly, three have passed away. These two didn't pass away and are completely fine." he said as he pointed at me and Nikki.
"Ah, yes, Nikki..." she replied as she petted the female. Nikki purred and tried to rub Faia's hand.
"Oh, you are a good pikachu...!" she laughed to Nikki as she moved her hand across her cheek up to her ears and scratched her ears.
"And how's Maurice?" she said, smiling at me. I didn't return the smile. I growled fiercely at her.
"His name is Maurice?" Shawn said.
"Yes, I didn't tell that to you?" she smiled.
"No, you seem to forgot to mention that." Shawn said.
"I'm sorry for that." Faia said as she tried to pet me. "Maurice, act nice will you...!" she said, still smiling to me and trying to pet me again. "Don't you remember me?"
I did remember her. As soon her hand came close I tried to bite it.
"MAURCE!" Shawn said with a firm glance.
"Nikki, do you know this female?" I said, watching her but in fighting stance towards Faia.
"No, but she's nice to me!" she replied, smiling and purring.
"Where did you get this pikachu?" Shawn asked to Faia.
"The forest, why?" Faia said as she pulled her hand away and watched Shawn.
"Well, he acts quite extraordinary." Shawn said.
"How so?" Faia said, not really understanding what he meant.
"Well, he tried to communicate with us by using the computer, and he managed to find his chip on the X-ray photo." Shawn said. "He really behaves differently, he has knowledge I never saw with a pikachu."
"Really?" Faia said as she stared to me. "That shouldn't be possible..." she added very softly. Shawn couldn't hear it. She also gave me a firm glance. "That's really interesting. I didn't know pikachu could do that."
"I really would like to keep Maurice here so I can investigate him." Shawn said. "Is that possible?"
"Oh, I'm sorry Shawn... I need him myself." she said, giving him an made up excuse face.
"That's too bad then..." Shawn said. "What are you doing with those pikachu? I would really like if you tell me, I'm not feeling fine with losing three pikachu in less than a week..." he said.
"I'm sorry, but that's company related." Faia said. "I can tell you that we use them for experiments... We try to make it as perfect as possible and sometimes you have to accept that some pikachu die for that. We're finally on the right way I guess." she added.
"Don't think we're killing pikachu for fun though, we don't like that they passed away at all." she said. "Sadly, sometimes we cannot prevent it."
"Uhm, well... Alright then..." Shawn said. Linda came in.
"Time to get into your cage guys, you're going on a trip." she said. Shawn turned around and pushed Nikki inside the cage. She didn't want to enter it at first, but after Shawn pushed her a bit, she entered. I was a different story. I didn't want to get in. Shawn pushed me inside as well, but I used my claws and paws and feet to prevent him pushing me in it.
"Don't... Push... Me..." I growled as Shawn stopped.
"You need to get in there, Maurice!" he said. I turned around and sparked my cheeks at him. I stood on my back legs and shook my head, clearly indicating that I wasn't going to enter.
"You get the documents, I'll handle this." Faia said to Shawn.
"Are you... OK then." he said as he say Faia's glance. Linda had left the room already to do other stuff. Shawn left the room and Faia looked at me. I growled dangerously at her and sparked my cheeks.
"So, you're able to read X-ray and to use a computer?" she said. "Apparently there's some human left in there... " she mumbled. I sparked my cheeks again as her hand came close.
"Don't worry, I'm not killing you." she said. "Just checking how your transformation went..."
She moved her hand closer. My pikachu side wasn't exactly happy with that. My instincts told me to keep that hand away from me. To protect myself from her at all costs. She came even closer. I sparked my cheeks again and when her hand got even closer I launched a strong thunderbolt that hit her. She screamed and fell to the ground. Almost immediately I heard footsteps outside of the room. Faia wasn't hurt badly, she immediately got back on her feet. Apparently my thunderbolt wasn't as strong as I wanted it to be. Shawn came around the corner.
"Already thought so." he said as he came closer and grabbed me before I could react. He quickly placed me in the cage and closed it so I was locked in with Nikki.
"I'm sorry for his behaviour. When I was around him, he was a good pikachu." Shawn said.
"No worries, I think he's still a bit feral." Faia said as she put a fake smile at Shawn.
"Alright then." Shawn said.
"I'll be going, they're expecting them." she said as she looked at me and Nikki. I was still growling at Faia.
"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow with new pikachu?" he asked.
"Yes, there will be three pikachu coming." she said.
"Ah, that's good. I'll prepare the rooms." he said.
"That's great, see you tomorrow then." she said as she grabbed our cage and lifted it. The cage was pretty small. We could stand in it and we could walk a couple of steps, but it was still very tight for two pikachu. Nikki and I were on the floor of the cage cuddled up together. This to my displeasure but Nikki's fun. She liked being around me, and my pikachu side liked being around her as well. My human side was the only that was uncomfortable right now, even though it was used being around pikachu all the time. We were carried out of the building and into a van. Faia placed us on the front seat and then she got in the drivers seat. She closed the door and started the van. Nikki got closer to me and whimpered.
"What's the matter?" I said to her.
"This... Thing... Is scary! What is happening?" she said.
"Wha... What?" I said, not understanding her.
"What is this?" she said as the car started moving. Nikki cuddled against me and shivered.
"Oh, this is just a car..." I said, gently nuzzling her cheek. "Just a way of humans moving around."
"Oh... I thought it was trying to kill me..." she said.
"Kill you? Silly." I said as I nuzzled her cheek once more and laughed at her.
"Maurice, I don't know how you managed to keep your human side in there." she said to me. "You should have lost it, just as happened to all those other pikachu."
I looked at her. She looked at me with some sort of angry face before she turned her attention back to the road. I looked at Nikki. The pikachu looked back at me with a questionable face.
"You mean that... Nikki..." I said to her.
"Yes, Nikki was human as well." Faia said.
"You were human too?!" I said to Nikki. Nikki looked at me with the same questionable face.
"What... What are you talking about? I'm a pikachu...!" she said confused. Faia looked at us again. She must have heard what I asked and what Nikki answered about the tone of my voice.
"She doesn't remember a thing, asking her is useless." she said. "You're the first pikachu to even remember me. As soon Shawn told me that you were acting strange, and as soon you bit me, I knew your memory was preserved. And even though I can't really understand you, I'm not insane." she said. "But I can assure you, if you don't cooperate with us now, I'll make sure Cammy won't live. You have been warned." she said. I growled to her. Nikki took her distance from me as I growled fiercely at Faia.
"You won't dare to do that!" I said.
"Yes I will if you don't cooperate with me." she said, looking at our cage. "And if you even try to prevent us from getting what we want, I'll personally make sure you won't see her ever again!" she said while looking at me and Nikki. Nikki was against the back of the cage, scared about the sudden change of tone of Faia. I looked at Faia and then I looked out of the front window again and gasped. Faia stopped watching us and looked out of the window as well before she screamed. While looking at us, Faia didn't notice a sharp corner coming right our way. She quickly turned the wheel and managed to make the bend somehow, but as soon the bend was finished she drove to the wrong side of the road due to her steering. She steered back to the right lane but did this way to quickly making the van tilt dangerously. She steered back to the wrong way of the road to prevent us falling, but as soon she steered the van tilted at the other side. I already knew what was gonna happen and braced myself. After one more steering to the other side the tilt became too much and the van fell on it's side, slid off the road and rolled over to the other side when we hit a tree. Then everything went black.
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