Hello everyone, and thanks for all the people for being so loyal to this story even though I don't update that much.
I'd like to thank Pichufan for the beta as usual. This part it's EMOTION OVERFLOW, so get your tissues ready.
Without further ado, let's get started!
Everyone (including officer Jenny, which didn't want to believe in the whole transformation thing) looked at me for at least ten seconds before Oak was the first one to move. Albert looked at me as well.
"What's the matter?" he said as he also looked at the gang of pikachu standing on the table, as Oak moved closer to me, not moving his eyes off me. He sat lower and looked straight into my eyes. Then there was an awful silence. Oak looked at me and then broke the silence.
"Maurice…?" he said slowly, completely surprised. I looked back at him and I nodded quickly, pulling a serious but unhappy face.
"Maurice, is that you...?" he then said, trying to confirm it again. Then he looked on the table and saw my drawing.
"Maurice changed into a pikachu…" he said to himself quickly as he stood up and looked on the drawings.
"How could I not see this...!" he then said frustrated, throwing his arms in the air, turning around and walking a couple of steps. Then he looked back at me.
"Is that really you?!" he said. I nodded again. I could feel that I got emotional. I raised my hands towards my parents.
"It's me dad…!" I said softly, watching my parents. They looked at me and remained silent. They looked perplexed. I turned around and got my picture, the one with Lukas on it. I held it in front of me.
"Please believe me, it's really me…!" I said, tears forming in my eyes.
"They believe you now… Don't worry." Scarlet said as she put a paw on my head. "They need some time to…" she paused. "Well, to believe it." she finally said as my father came closer.
"Wait, is that Maurice…?" Albert asked with a hopeful voice as he pointed at me. Oak looked at him and nodded.
"It appears so. I can't believe this." Oak said as my father moved closer.
"Wait a minute…" he said as he saw me holding the picture. "You are that pikachu that was in our house two days ago!"
I looked at him surprised and then nodded.
"I didn't mean to break that picture, dad, I just wanted you to know it's me…!" I said as I started to cry soundless tears. "I just wanted you to know…" I said softly as he sat in front of me, looking in my eyes. "Please believe me…"
"Are you… Are you really… Are you my son…?" he said. I nodded.
"Pika." I heard next to me. Scarlet stood next to me and also nodded while laying her paw on my back. Lukas quickly stood on the other side and nodded as well.
"Come on Maurice, give him a hug... or... something." Scarlet said as she pushed me forwards a bit towards my father. I looked back at her and then at my father. He looked at me a little bit better before he looked over to the drawings I made. He shook his head softly and narrowed his eyes. He was thinking something, I wish I knew what... Then he looked back at me and held his hands forward and closed them around my pikachu body. I started crying and looked at him. He looked me in the eyes once more.
"It really is you… I… I can't believe this…" he said as he quickly lifted me upwards and hugged me closer to himself, doing exactly what I did with other pikachu. I nuzzled my face around his neck and cried a lot. The tension of never getting ever discovered, being unsure, being rejected, being homeless, being a pikachu for… Maybe forever, I didn't know anything anymore. It was like my brain short circuit or something. I cannot remember much of that moment anymore, other than that I was so happy to be with my father that I literally bursted out with tears, also because he finally knew.
"Sshhhh… It's alright, we know it's you now…" he said as he turned around and hugged me and used his (now) giant hands to cuddle me and to stroke me across my head and back. Actually that felt really good. Like a three year old kid all I wanted was my father and mother, and I fucking didn't care.
"We were so worried we would never see you again…" he whispered to my ears after a while. I responded by quickly hugging him even closer, almost suffocating him. He pulled me away gently and then turned around and walked to my mother, still holding me safely. My mom looked at me and then looked at my dad.
"Honey, you don't think that…." she started, but my father gave her a glance.
"Sweetheart, I indeed do believe this is him." he said.
"But… How in the world…" she said as she held to the table. Jenny quickly put her in a chair. She looked about to faint.
"Honey, listen to me carefully. If everything Oak has told us is true, this pikachu is capable of doing things a normal pikachu would never be able to. Just take a look at these drawings." he said as he turned around and showed her the drawings.
"A pikachu wouldn't make these. Just think about it. A stick figure is something completely human - the arrows that indicate something. A pikachu wouldn't do this." he said.
"Look at this - this is what Scarlet drew." he said as he showed Scarlet's drawing.
"It's awesome!" Scarlet said.
"Just a bunch of lines." my mother said as she looked at it. "Nothing too special."
"You have to be kidding…!" I heard Scarlet say from the back.
"Exactly." my father said as he pointed at my drawing again. "Then we have the fact that this pikachu came to our home. I didn't hear the neighbours talking about a strange pikachu getting inside. I recognize him. Remember what he was trying to do? Remember that we commented he was behaving strangely afterwards but couldn't find him anywhere?"
"Yes, but-" she started. "- I would never think… Oh Arceus…" she said as she looked at me. I had started crying again while looking at her. I loved her, for fucks sake. I was looking at her and the only thing I wanted to do was hug her close until the end of times. How could she not believe me now… Although I did understand it was kind of strange. I held my paws forward towards her and indicated I wanted to go to her instead of my dad. She grabbed me from my father and hugged me as well. I hugged back and cried again. I just wanted them to believe me. I wanted to go back to my human form, I wanted everything to return how it was.
"Oh Maurice…" she whispered as I nudged her neck and cheek with mine. "If you only knew how scared I was something had happened to you…"
"Something did happen to me…" I mumbled under the hugs. She then pulled me forwards and looked at me.
"Yes, something did happen to you." she said. She must have caught my talking. Tone of voice can tell people a lot, so it appears.
"But I wonder, who are you then?" my father said as he looked at the researcher named Albert.
"And why do you know my son turned into a pikachu?" my mother added, sounding rather angry. Albert stood back a bit by the sudden change of atmosphere.
"Let me do a proper introduction first. I am Albert, a pokémon researcher from Jhoto. I am about the professor Oak from Jhoto." he said as he looked at my parents. "About six years ago, Team Rocket kidnapped me and faked my death by a terrible traffic accident which was all set up, but believed by everybody. I was involved in a research involving pikachu manipulation, or rather human transformation and DNA manipulation. To make things short, using pikachu DNA and human DNA we tried to transform humans into pokémon. Your son is the result of our work." he ended. "That's my introduction in a nutshell."
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SON!" my mother said as she put me down and stood closer to Albert.
"Honey, calm do-" my father said.
"Please let me expla…" Albert said at the same time.
"NO I WON'T. THIS PIECE OF SHIT IS THE REASON OUR SON IS A PIKACHU!" she shouted as she stood in front of Albert, who didn't even flinch. He just closed his eyes and looked annoyed.
"If you allow me, I will explain…" he repeated.
"THERE IS NO NEED TO EXPLAIN!" my mother said. "YOU HELPED THEM CHANGING MY SON INTO A PIKACHU AND YOU NEED TO BE PUNISHED FOR IT!" she shouted.
"I HELPED THEM BECAUSE THEY THREATENED TO KILL MY WIFE AND CHILDREN IF I DIDN'T!" he shouted back to her. My mom stood back from the sudden outburst by Albert.
"DON'T THINK I DID THIS OUT OF FREE WILL, I DIDN'T WANT THIS. THEY FORCED ME, AND IF I WOULD NOT COMPLY, THEY WOULD KILL MY OWN CHILDREN IN FRONT OF MY VERY OWN EYES." he shouted, before he looked at my mother with very angry eyes before he left the room and slammed the door shut, almost breaking the glass as he did so, leaving my mother and father looking at the door.
"I think you owe the man an apology." Oak said after a silence. My mother sighed deeply when Oak left the room for a moment to check on Albert.
"Excuse me… I'm just…" she said as she looked at me and Oak. Oak gave her one more look and then left the room. Jenny looked from the back of the room at all of us.
"And then to believe that I DIDN'T believe him." she said as she put her hand for her mouth. She got back to herself quickly. "I need a talk with him… I wonder if we can sue him for… For whatever." she mumbled as she also left the room. My mom looked back at me.
"Oh honey…" mom said as she picked me up and hugged me again. I hugged her back and after another minute or so my sad mood had all been cleared up. I actually felt great now my parents finally knew it was me. My father also smiled and put his hand before his mouth, looking at me with an estimating look. I looked back at him with a slight smile that told him that I was wondering what he thought.
"I'm absolutely sure it's you… Your appearance might have changed, your behavior certainly hasn't." he laughed. "So besides being a pikachu… How is it being a pikachu…?" he asked, leaving me puzzled.
"Knowing you you'll probably find it the coolest thing that ever happened to you." he said, leaving my mother completely gobsmacked. He laughed even harder when I replied by a loud "Pika!" and jumped from the chair to the ground, before climbing his shoulder and standing there rubbing his cheek.
"Heh heh, you really adapted to that pikachu body of yours quickly, didn't you?" he said as he tickled me under my chin, making me purr.
"Yup." I said, knowing that he would hear only pikachu.
"You look cute, you know that?" he said to me, continuing to scratch me under my chin and on my belly, only making me purr even more. Then my dad placed me on the ground. My mother looked over all the pikachu.
"So, these are… Pikachu from the colony?" he said. We looked at all the pikachu, that were still standing there and watching us. I shook my head.
"Only Lukas if from the colony." I said.
"Yup!" Lukas smiled as he wagged his tail.
"Not all of them… Jack and Rosie are also here." my father said. "And Lukas, of course."
"And Scarlet…" Oak added as he and Albert came back in. My mother apologized. Albert thanked quickly and told my mom to forget about it, adding that he would be worried as well when his daughter would go missing, but that he was just frustrated about everything. He didn't have the chance to visit his own family yet.
"But without any… Well, without any accusation, why and how do you know we are his parents?" my dad asked Albert after a short while.
"Well, as I said, Team Rocket did research with DNA and Maurice was one of our test subjects. When we received reports about an pokéball accident involving a boy and some pikachu, our interest was piqued. Well, our, Team Rocket's." he added. "After a short while we got the documentation of Oak and Bill telling us that he, apparently, was sucked inside a pokéball, and that he had some kind of pikachu in his mind. That triggered our interest because he would be perfect for this transformation." Albert explained.
"I don't know how they got him. I suppose they just took him - all I know he was unconscious when he got in. We did some basic tests with him and it indeed turned out he was able to speak to pikachu and understand them. We never knew if he was able to hear and see as one, but we knew about the understanding part." he continued.
"After multiple examinations, we decided to try out luck on him. We continued the procedure and as you can see we managed to change him into a pikachu." he said as he looked at me, came closer and gently rubbed his fingers across my cheeks. Then he grabbed me from my father's shoulder and set me on the table in the middle of the room. He looked to me from top to bottom.
"And we did an awesome job, I have to say." he said as he touched me from top to bottom and inspected me. "Even though I do not agree with it or even though I know how uncomfortable it is for you." he said, looking at me.
"But, how do you know we are his parents?" my dad asked again.
"Well, because of his name. His complete name was in the file so tracking you down wasn't that hard. I knew Oak had something to do with this, because they got Maurice from here somehow. I went to your house after asking directions in the nearby Pokémon Center. Nurse Joy provided your address, and when I was at your house, the neighbours told me you were here. So I got a lift of someone that was heading here and here I am." he explained quickly. He turned his attention towards me.
"You have no idea how happy I am right now. I thought I would never find you again." he said. "At least your family knows you're a pikachu. That's something…" he sighed. Talking about pikachu and family, I suddenly remembered Nikki. I quickly drew his attention towards me.
"Nikki is here as well!" I said.
"This language barrier is just great." he mumbled as he shook his head. I took a step back and looked kind of angry-amused, knowing exactly what he meant.
"What do you wanna tell me…?" he said.
"Nikki?" I said, looking at the other pikachu. The pichu had found the pencils and were drawing, and the pikachu were just sitting or playing.
"Yeah?" she asked from under one of the computer tables. She poked her head out.
"Come on up here, I want to introduce you to somebody!" I chuckled. Nikki quickly jumped the table and stood next to me.
"This is Nikki!" I said pointing to Nikki. Albert was watching both of us. "She's also been human…" I said, knowing that he didn't understand me.
"Damnit…" I said as I looked around trying for something to translate my speech. Then something hit me. How could I be so stupid? Why didn't I think of this earlier? Then all that stress wouldn't be necessary. Espeon. Espeon could translate everything for me. My eyes lit up and I smiled.
"Wow, you are happy all of a sudden." he chuckled.
"He's up to something." my dad said. And he was right. I quickly moved towards one of the closets that was in Oaks laboratory, jumping down from the table to get there.
"So, are you introducing me?" Nikki said from the table. I tried to open the closet.
"You wanna get something?" Oak said as he walked over and unlocked it. I nodded and looked around. His storage of pokédex should be around here somewhere… I saw them and grabbed one, before I headed back to the table. I laid the pokédex down on the table and opened it. The thing went on. I clicked 'pokémon' and got into a list of pokémon. Unfortunately, since I lost the ability to read, I couldn't see which one it were. I looked at the device for a couple of seconds before I tried one of the buttons.
"Bulbasaur. It bears the seed of a plant on its back from birth. The seed slowly develops. Researchers are unsure whether to classify Bulbasaur as a plant or animal. Bulbasaur are extremely calm and very difficult to capture in the wild."
No, that wasn't the right one. I clicked the button again.
"The Seed Pokémon, Ivysaur…"
No, no, no! NEXT!
"He wants to show us a pokémon, I think." Oak said as he stood next to Albert and my dad.
"Venusaur..."
No!
"Charme…"
No!
"This could take a while…" Oak said as he watched me pressing the buttons quicker and quicker as the pokémon flashed by and the computer-like voice couldn't properly finish the first word it was trying to say.
The process continued for a couple of minutes. As soon the wrong pokémon came on screen, I clicked the button to show the next one, until I reached number 196, which was Espeon.
"This is it!" I said happily as I saw Espeon's picture appearing on the screen.
"Espeon, the Sun Pokémon. Espeon are able to read air currents allowing it to predict the future as well as its opponents' next moves." the device said. Oak, Albert and dad looked at me. I looked at the pokédex.
"Espeon?" Albert said. I nodded. I looked at Oak.
"The Espeon in the woods, the one you met…!" I said to Oak, pointing at the woods. Oak followed my paw and looked at the wall. Then he looked back.
"The colony…" he mumbled. "Espe… WAIT A MINUTE…" he said. "The Espeon from the woods, excellent idea!" he said as he looked at me. I smiled and with a happy 'PIKA!' I gave him a thumbsup to tell him that was what I meant. Albert and dad looked at him.
"Uhm, I… don't understand it?" Albert chuckled.
"In the pikachu colony Maurice joined, there is an Espeon. She helped him by translating pikachu speech into human speech using psychic powers. That way he learned to talk pikachu!" he said. "If we can get her here, she could translate his speech for us!"
"That would be ideal…" Albert mumbled.
"Lukas, did you see Espeon recently?" I asked Lukas, who was running around the table with the pichu. Lukas slid to a stop and looked at me.
"Yes, she was with the colony when I left there. She usually sticks around for the night if she's there all day long." Lukas replied. "Should I get her?"
"I'll come with you." I said as I jumped down from the table.
"Wait a minute!" my mother said. "Where are you going?!"
"He's going to get Espeon so he can talk with us." Oak said as he walked over to another closet and opened it. "He'll be back pretty soon." he said while his face was inside the closet, making him be barely hearable. I just wanted to walk outside with Lukas when Oak pulled me back.
"Hold it for one second, young man." he said as he lifted me by my scruff and carried me to the table. I tried to escape his grip, but nothing worked. So this is how it felt to be 'caught', I guess. I gave Oak a annoyed look.
"I know, I know." he said as he saw my face. "But I'm not going to let you go out there without something to track and to recognize you." he said as he quickly fixed a collar around my neck. It was red and had some funky striping. And it was itchy. As soon Oak released me and the collar, I tried to scratch it off with my feet because it itched so badly. I grabbed it with my paws and looked at it, before looking at Oak.
"It has GPS and is electricity resistant." Oak said. "Perfect to keep track of you in case you get lost or caught. If you don't return within 90 minutes, I'll come and get you, you understand?" he said as he looked at me firmly. I quickly nodded.
"Be careful, honey." my mother said as I jumped from the table.
"Sure 'ma, I'll be careful." I said as I walked past her. I followed Lukas outside.
"Hey Maurice, wait! You're not leaving without me aren't you?" Nikki said panicked as she followed quickly.
"Yes I am, I'll be back soon." I said quickly. Taking her with us would only delay us for now.
"You just stay here, I'll come back quickly." I chuckled as I nuzzled her cheek.
"Promise." I said as I watched her eyes. Dang, I have to be honest, she had beautiful eyes... No, no, no!
"Don't fall in love with her before you're sure you can't transform back!" I thought quickly before I turned around and ran behind Lukas, back to our colony, leaving an surprised Nikki behind.
. . .
After we ran a couple of hundred meters, we stopped running and started to walk a bit slower. We both walked on our back legs now, saying nothing really. Although, after I let Lukas go in front in a piece of rough terrain… I could notice he had something on his mind. Also, I could sense it, because… Well, because I was a pikachu! Pokémon could sense strong emotions from their trainers, but also from other pokémon. I could tell Lukas was… Well… Excited about something.
"Do you have something on your mind?" I chuckled when we walked alongside again and towards the colony. We weren't there yet, but it wasn't far.
"Well… You know… IT'S SO COOL!" Lukas shouted when he hugged me.
"What is cool?" I chuckled, pushing Lukas away a bit.
"Well…" Lukas started. "You know…"
I looked at him and waited for him to speak up, wondering what he wanted to tell me.
"After you've been gone… You… Well… They started to be mean to me… Some sort of way." Lukas said. "I don't know why, but they were getting really tough on me when I told them you probably weren't coming back real soon." he then said. "Some pikachu even wanted to choose another leader like… Immediately. Of course I rejected the idea, I thought I was doing fine. But they suddenly thought that I was too small to be the leader of the colony, and they started to be very… harsh on me." he continued.
"The thing is, I was called a bad leader, I made wrong decisions about stuff… I was only gone to check for you, they even said I was a bad mate." he said as he stopped and looked down for a moment. Then he looked at me. "Even though Lola keeps saying I am a good mate they keep telling me I am not." I could now see that he was crying a bit.
"I don't understand it. They even threatened to exclude me from the colony when I would not make someone else colony leader. I didn't even know why." he said. "So after a while some strong pikachu challenged me for a battle…" he said. Then he remained silent for a bit. I looked at him with a face of disbelief.
"And?" I said after a couple of seconds, wanting to know the outcome.
"I won." he then said as he smiled at me. He moved a bit closer and hugged me again.
"Thanks to you I won." he said.
"But I wasn't even there…" I chuckled.
"But the training helped me." he said as he broke the hug. "Anyway… I really missed you… And I realised how much I missed you… I mean…" he started but didn't continue.
"You mean what?" I chuckled as I stood in front of him, folded my paws and looked at him with a determined smile.
"Well, you're… You're my best friend in the entire colony… And you were gone for so long… And suddenly, Scarlet tells me that there's a random pikachu standing there that is… Well… YOU!" he said as he looked at me. "And then it appears you are really… Maurice… I… Well… I am confused a bit… I'm very happy you're back and such, and you're my friend… I was so happy back there… And I think… Well… It's cool that you're back as a pikachu…" he said as he blushed.
"I mean… I sometimes even thought about when you would be a pikachu, when you were talking pikachu with everyone… I mean, you're the best pikachu a human can be…" he said. It made me blush a bit.
"Hehe… Stop it Lukas, you're making me blush." I chuckled.
"Why? You really are a great pikachu…" he said. "It's really cool you're a real pikachu now… Really for real now." he chuckled. "But at being a pikachu you suck. Your attacks were weaker than a pichu back there." he chuckled.
"Gee, thanks." I said with a sarcastic tone while pulling a funny face.
"See, it's really you. You're the only one that would respond like this." he laughed. "The other pikachu would be mad at me or even attack me when I would say this." he said when his face turned dark again.
"I still don't know why they act like this…" he said. "But now you're back… I already want to see their faces if they realise you're here again." he chuckled. "When they realise it really is you…" he said as he looked up to the sky.
"Do you know why they would act like that?" he asked me, looking at me and tilting his head. I looked at him. Should I tell him the one and only reason they were acting like this was also me? That his best friend was the reason he was bullied now? And those damn pikachu, they promised… Ah well, they are pikachu. I can't really blame them. Jerkish, but I still can't blame them.
"Uhm, hello?" Lukas said as I was lost in thoughts. I looked at him.
"Well… Uhm… Yeah… I think I do know why they are like this." I said slowly and unsurely. Lukas looked at me and tilted his head.
"Well, why then?" he asked.
"It's because of me." I said.
"Because of you?" he asked.
"Yes, because of me. Remember back in the beginning, when they wanted to make you colony leader?" I said. Lukas nodded.
"Yes… I do…" he said.
"Well, actually, they didn't really wanted to make you leader." I sighed. "They wanted to make ME the leader of the colony." I said. "Not you."
Lukas remained silent for a while and looked at me.
"They chose me because… Well, I'm a human, I knew a lot, and I understood you guys better than average. I made right decisions according to them, and the more I was in the colony the better I got." I said. "But I never intended to be the leader of the colony. Never. I just wanted to be with you guys, but never wanted to be the leader. After asking a couple of times, they finally understood that I didn't want to become leader." I said.
"But… Why me?" Lukas said as he pulled a questionable face, not understanding that he was being used all the time.
"Because they knew you had a good bond with me." I said. "They knew that if they would make you colony leader, I would have influence on your decisions. You and I talk… Well, a lot. And in all that talking I could give you hints, help you out, do stuff…" I said.
"Basically, they used you to make me colony leader without me being the actual leader." I sighed. "In the start, I was also doubting if you would make a good leader." I said. Lukas looked at me with a serious but listening face.
"I don't mean this bad, Lukas." I added. "But you were young at that time, and other pikachu like Volt had more experience with it, I think. But they necessarily wanted me to be leader, or co-leader as they called it." I said.
"So… They used me… Ah…" he said as he looked down.
"They even asked me if I could help you." I said.
"But why didn't you tell me?" he said.
"Because you were so happy you were becoming leader, I thought it would destroy our friendship if I would do that." I said, looking away from him.
"So you have been controlling the colony through me for the whole time?" Lukas said.
"Well, basically, yes." I said. "The first months."
"What was a month again…?" Lukas said.
"Thirty suns… A long time." I said, cutting him off there.
"So you've been using me as well." he said, his voice and face turning darker.
"No." I said resolute. "I never have been using you to control the colony I wanted."
"I have been helping you, but I never controlled it myself." I said. But Lukas now got the whole plan, and I could see something had snapped. He finally understood the real purpose of making him leader and the reason he was now being bullied at the colony. And to be honest, I could perfectly imagine that he was fed up with those pikachu telling him what to do and what not.
"So you're not really a friend… Just using me…" he mumbled.
"I have never used you." I said. "I will be honest. The first month I could see you were hopeless in being a leader. Volt told me a lot behind your back to do, what I passed to you." I said. Lukas gritted his teeth and stood in fighters stance.
"But after a couple of months, you could clearly see that you were getting better and better at things. You now knew how things worked and what you had to do." I said. "At that point, I was afraid that the other pikachu would see you as a threat. Then I started to train you." I said. Lukas looked at me, still looking unhappy.
"Remember that? When I started to train you?" I said. Lukas looked at me and nodded quickly.
"Look back to after that moment. After you became stronger than before." I said to him. "Don't look at the time before that."
Lukas broke eye-contact and looked around, thinking.
"After that moment, you took control of the colony without me even knowing it. Sometimes I told you something that would be strange, or needed, or something like that, but you took proper control of the colony from that day. And look at you now - you are controlling one of the biggest colonies in Pallet. I think you've grown to be a fine colony leader and mate."
"And I've been gone now for… I don't know how long exactly. Too long." I said. "You're still controlling the colony, at least, I hope so." I said. "Thanks to me, you just said it." I added quickly with a quick glance. "I don't want to take credit for everything, but at least want to say that I just wanted you to be a fine colony leader and I think WE did a proper job."
Lukas looked at me, he was angry with me, or with the other pikachu, or with… Well, I don't know, but he was angry. He was just looking at me. He closed his eyes, sighed and then stood on his back legs. Then he opened his eyes and I could see he was crying a bit.
"It's not that I'm angry or something, but just… They…" he said as he bit his lips.
"They were just total jerks to you." I said. "That's what we call politics in our human world."
Lukas just gave me a small smile before turning back to his sad self. I stood closer to him and put a paw on his head.
"So they just used me to make you colony leader and now that you're gone they just want to get rid of me…" Lukas said as he sniffed his nose, drying his eyes. Knowing that it was just the tension of the past weeks, I stood next to him.
"Yup, that's about it, yes." I said.
"Let's show them." Lukas said.
"Show them what." I asked.
"That you're back." Lukas said.
"What would that do?" I asked.
"Well…" Lukas said. He probably didn't understand the consequences of telling them, nor did he realise that they probably wouldn't even believe him.
"It's not they will tell you that you will remain colony leader because I'm back. Or that they will even believe I am Maurice." I said.
"Well, that's true… But…" Lukas said.
"Just focus on being a good leader. Ignore what they tell you. If they tell you you are a bad leader, ask them why. I think they cannot find a good reason for it. And if they can, work on it." I said to him.
"Remember, you're here with a human being, and we are smarter than the average pikachu." I said as I looked at him.
"Gee, thanks." Lukas said while imitating me, also pulling a face. This made me smile widely.
"The year with me made you smarter than them, trust me. You know more about being a leader than you think right now." I said.
"How do you know?" he asked.
"Because I know you were thinking just now that you were a bad colony leader, until I told you I was actually training you instead of using you. You thought I was using you for myself, whilst I was using me to train you and make you a good leader." I said. "And right now you're thinking about everything and you're realising that I'm right. And you're probably thinking 'how does he know that?' by now." I chuckled.
"WHAT THE HECK." Lukas said. "How do you know that I'm thinking about how you know I know and…" he said as he grabbed his ears and head and shook them. "It's confusing!"
"That's why I understand it and you don't." I chuckled. Lukas looked at me and hugged me again. This time he hugged me longer than before.
"You're the best friend ever." he said.
"And you're the best pikachu ever." I said as I hugged him back. After a while we broke the hug.
"Why are pikachu hugging each other all the time?" I asked, pulling a funny face while looking at Lukas.
"Humans never hug?" Lukas asked.
"Well, males don't usually hug males…" I said.
"Why not…" Lukas said. "Whatever. Humans are weird." he said. "Smart - But weird." he said with a pause as he walked off towards the colony. I laughed about what he just said and followed him quickly, because we only had 90 minutes to get back to Oak. We had to find Espeon and get back, so we could actually talk to my parents.
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Oh, one more thing for 'certain' viewers. Don't shout in a library... :P