The Shining Latios
A/N: Hello people! Triforcelord is back with the next chapter! I don't really have much to say this time, so here's the chapter!
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
'Telepathy'
The Shining Latios Chapter 4: Meeting With Some Old Friends
"Oh yes you do!" Latias said, "Just what happened while I was gone? You changed colors!"
Ash was confused, so he went over to the pond and looked at his reflection. What he saw there made him say words that made Latias shout, "Ash!"
When he first transformed, he had been a sea green color with a white underbelly and a gold triangle on his chest. Now, things were flipped. His main body was gold with a light yellow underbelly, and his triangle was now the same color that his main body had used to be, sea green. That wasn't all, however. He now had 15 rectangular markings going around his body in a circle. They were all different colors, like blue, red, orange, green, light green, and many more.
Ash whimpered and said, "I guess it wasn't bad enough for me to become a Pokemon, nooo! Now I look like a freak Pokemon!" He floated down to the ground and crossed his arms, pouting a little.
"Oh no you don't." Latias said, pulling Ash back up with some effort, "There's no time to pout. Sorry for being a little harsh on you, but if you don't tell us what happened, than we can't do anything about it. So please, start from the beginning." She said the last part in a softer voice. She didn't want to hurt Ash's feelings after all.
Ash was still confused. "What do you mean by us?" He asked Latias.
Latias checked over her shoulder. "Huh." She said, "I guess I left them in the dust." She giggled at the thought of Bianca and Lorenzo trying to keep up with the red blur that was her playing.
Just then, Bianca and Lorenzo came into sight, puffing and wheezing. "Geez Latias," Bianca said, "I get that you're excited to see Ash, but slow down a bit, okay? We humans can only go so fa-" She then noticed the oddly-colored Latios floating next to Latios. "Okay, two questions. One, who's that? And two, where's Ash?"
Latias held back her giggles and projected telepathically, 'The Latios is Ash.' She then collapsed into giggles at their expressions.
"A-Ash?" Bianca said, looking confused and worried.
"Latias," Ash said, "How do I use telepathy?"
Latias sighed, "Telepathy's not something you can just learn in five minutes." She said, "I'll teach you later. For now, just nod."
"Okay." Ash said, then he nodded at Bianca and Lorenzo.
Bianca and Lorenzo had already established that it was really Ash, and sweatdropped at how long it took Ash to just nod. "So," Lorenzo said, finally speaking up, "How did this happen?"
Bianca and Lorenzo heard a small sound of frustration in their head. 'I don't know.' Latias telepathed, 'I was about to find that out.' She turned to Ash. She was about to tell him to tell her, then she got a better idea.
"Hey Ash." Latias said.
"What?" Ash said, getting a little uncomfortable at how hard Bianca and Lorenzo were staring at him.
"How about I teach you how to change your form?" Latias said, wondering what Ash's reaction would be.
"YEEAAHH!" Ash yelled, happy once again, "I wanna become human again!"
Latias sighed. She didn't want to burst Ash's bubble, but if she was going to teach him how to transform, she had to explain it properly.
"Well, you won't actually become human." Latias said. Ash stopped celebrating and looked at her. "You'll still be a Pokemon. You'll just be changing your form to that of a human." She winced at his expression. She decided to cheer him up using the only surefire way to cheer Ash up. "You'll be able to eat human food again, too." She laughed at how fast his expression changed from depressed to the usual hyper, happy, carefree expression.
"Alright!" Ash said, getting determined, "Let's do this!"
"Okay," Latias said, trying to get into teacher mode, "All you have to do is form Psychic energy by focusing your mind, then shape it into the form you want. All that's left after that is to force it onto you. It's pretty easy, and it's even easier for us because we're Legendary Psychics. So go ahead, try it."
Ash just stared at her. "What?" He said, feeling very stupid, "You kinda lost me at "Okay"."
Latias sweatdropped. 'Maybe this is going to be harder than I thought.' She thought, 'Time to try another tactic.'
"Okay Ash," She said, "Think of it this way. Imagine you want to make a cake." Ash immediately started salivating. Latias snapped her fingers under his chin. "Pay attention please. As I was saying, imagine you want to make a cake. But there's a problem. Instead of liquid icing, you have some icing that's hardened and made to go over the top of the cake. Here's the problem: the icing's just a little bit too small. What're you gonna do?" She crossed her claws, hoping that Ash would finally come through brainwise.
Meanwhile, Bianca and Lorenzo were getting very impatient. "What d'you think they're talking about, Grandpa?" Bianca asked.
"I have no clue." Lorenzo replied.
"Well, whatever it is, they're taking forever." Bianca said, pulling out a sketchbook and a pencil. "I think I'm going to draw them." She sat down on the soft grass and began to sketch. Lorenzo sat down next to her and watched her sketch, looking over at the two Pokemon every once in a while.
Back with the two Pokemon, Ash had finally understood what Latias was talking about. "Ohhhh, I get it! I just make the icing liquid, get it into the shape I want, then make it fit!" He said, excited now that he'd figured it out.
Latias beamed at him. "Exactly!" Inside however, she was sweatdropping. 'Is all he thinks about is food?' She thought, mentally sighing. 'Well, at least he finally understands it. Let's see if he can do it.'
"Why don't you try it out now, Ash?" Latias said telepathically, so that Bianca and Lorenzo could know to look.
Bianca and Lorenzo looked up just in time to see blue light surround Ash. When the light faded, Human Ash was back.
Ash walked over to the pool to see his reflection. He noticed that he was walking on two legs, but something still felt funny. He saw his reflection and screamed. He had accidentally turned into Bianca.
The others, who had been holding in their laughter, now burst out laughing.
'Close, but not quite.' Latias said, wheezing.
"Great, now there's another me. Good job Ash." Bianca said, although she nearly choked on her words she was laughing so hard.
"Another granddaughter? Where do they keep coming from?" Lorenzo said, managing to keep a straight face all throughout his statement, but then collapsed into laughter.
"Hey, it's not funny!" Ash yelled, then covered his mouth when the words came out high pitched. This led to more laughter.
'Hey, at least you can talk!' Latias said, then kept laughing.
"Just tell me how o get back to normal." Ash grumbled.
Once everybody calmed down enough to speak, Latias said, 'Just do what you did before, just this time with your own form.' She swallowed her giggles because of the glare Ash was giving her.
Ash tried again, and when the light faded, he was back in his own human form. "Oh, thank Arceus!" Ash said, relieved.
Latias, Bianca, and Lorenzo were confused. 'Did you say…Arceus?' Latias asked, 'For the most part, only Pokemon know of Lord Arceus.' The gears in her head started turning. 'Wait, that means that you must've met Lord Arceus! You better explain, right now!' Latias said, glaring at Ash.
Ash gulped. Latias looked a lot like his mom or Misty did when they were angry, and Ash knew from experience that either of them angry was not a good thing. "I-I'll explain! I'll explain!" Ash said, freaked out a little. 'Are all girls this scary when they're angry?' Ash thought, then shivered at the thought.
The fire in Latias's eyes died down to be replaced by their usual kindness and cheer. "Okay, go on ahead!" She said, beaming at Ash.
For some reason, the beam scared Ash even more than the glare. 'What's up with her?' Ash thought, then shrugged and began explaining what had happened ever since he had touched the jewel.
When he was done, everybody was in awe and shock. Lorenzo was the first to recover. "That's amazing." He said, "To have met Arceus, and to have the abilities to save the world…truly amazing."
'Let's hope it's enough.' Latias said.
Ash finally noticed that something was missing. He looked at them confusedly.
'What is it?' Latias asked, worried at the expression on Ash's face.
"Where's Pikachu?" Ash said, getting really worried.
Meanwhile, at the docks:
Pikachu was not a very pleased Pikachu at the moment. He had been left in the dust first by Latias, then by Bianca and Lorenzo. Even though his sense of direction wasn't as bad as Ash's, it wasn't good enough to find his way back to the garden.
He had almost given up hope when he heard a familiar voice.
"Oh my sweet," The oh-so-familiar voice said, "The distance between us was great, but now, with our hearts so close together, we shall never be separated again!" Pikachu followed the voice until he found a familiar, brown-haired, eyeless pervert flirting with some poor woman. Pikachu snuck up behind Brock.
"The feelings I have for you are so great as to be called electrifying, and so-" Pikachu shocked Brock so hard you could see his bones "-is…my…whole…aching…body…" Pikachu stopped his flow of electricity and Brock fell to the ground. The woman quickly ran off.
Brock eventually got up and glared at Pikachu. "What did you do that for, Pikachu?" He said, "I had a winner there!" Pikachu just rolled his eyes.
Calming down, Brock looked around. "So, where's Ash?" He asked, "Since you're here, that means Ash must be somewhere nearby."
Pikachu started making sign language the best he could to spell out where Ash was. Brock eventually got the message.
"They're bungee-jumping in the pizza parlor?" Brock asked, confused.
Pikachu groaned and repeated his message. "Oh, so Ash is sleeping in the Secret Garden." He said, getting it right this time. Pikachu nodded. "Well, okay then, let's go." Pikachu jumped onto Brock's shoulder and the two set off for the Garden.
Meanwhile, underneath Viridian City:
A certain man was sitting in his office in his underground hideout under the Viridian Gym. This man was Giovanni, the boss of the criminal organization Team Rocket. He was currently waiting for a report on one of Team Rocket's newest finds.
"What's taking those imbeciles so long?" Giovanni growled, scratching his Persian behind the ears, "It's been a week since I gave them that artifact and they still haven't given me any reports!" His tirade was cut short by his assistant's voice coming over his private intercom.
He pressed the button. "What is it?" He growled.
The assistant, used to this behavior, reported. "Professor Namba here to report, sir."
'Ahh, finally.' Giovanni thought. "Send him in." He said, releasing the button.
Professor Namba, a short, odd-looking scientist, walked into the office. "Professor Namba here to report, sir." He said.
"What is it that you need to report?" Giovanni asked. 'This better be good.' He thought.
"We have made some progress on the artifact that was recovered approximately one week and seven hours ago, sir." Professor Namba said. Giovanni waved his hand for him to continue. "It seems to contain massive amounts of the energy found in Bug-types." He said.
Giovanni raised an eyebrow. "Can we use this energy?" He asked.
Professor Namba squirmed a bit. "We think so, sir." He said, "But we are not sure how, though. Please, give us some more time, sir." Professor Namba was almost begging at this last part.
Giovanni thought about it and nodded. "Very well, you may have some more time." He said, "I will also give you more funds. But be warned, if you do not give me results within the month, it'll be your head, understand?"
Namba gulped and nodded. "Good. Now get out." Professor Namba scurried out of the office, closing the door behind him.
When he was gone, Giovanni allowed himself to grin. "This may be just what I need!" He said, chuckling darkly.
A/N: So, how was that, huh? Again, not much to say here this time, other than the poll is still up. Please Read and Review! Triforcelord, out!