Mamoswine and Sentret

Panic spread through the Pokemon lab. Two dozen small brown furred Pokemon rushed away to hiding spots, turning a crowded room into a near empty one. A brown and tan striped tail hung out of a vent, but quickly vanished, leaving a pair of eyes looking out the bars. Elsewhere, seven of the Sentrets had all hidden under a couch, hoping their numbers might counter out the fact that they could be seen under there.

In the middle of the room, a human woman in a lab coat sighed. "What is this interruption for?" she asked, walking towards the large doorway. "You've frightened all my Sentrets."

"Sorry, professor," a man's voice replied. "But we had something to bring in to you."

"Is this about the archeology department's di…?" she stopped mid-word, eyes wide.

The Sentrets murmured to themselves. This particular human was like one of their group. However, she was a lot braver than they, probably because she was a human and not a small furry Sentret. So to affect her like that, what was coming in? Was it something really bad?

"Yeah, this is something they brought up on their arctic dig," the man said. "Your lab was the one that had room in it."

Clenching her fists, she glared at him. "Is that it? You should have asked me first. This lab is for work on my Sentret study."

"Those are just small common Pokemon," the man dismissed. "But this is a really special one, perhaps one of a kind. You could make a big splash with this one."

"I can't just abandon this project for another," she replied, but any more conversation was blocked off by the thing the university workers brought in.

It awed the smaller Pokemon, making a few cower even further into their hiding spots. While it had large shaggy brown fur, sort of like them, it was even taller than the professor. It had weird blue markings by its face and huge curved tusks. However, it didn't move on its own. This Pokemon was still, being dragged in on a large wooden platform with wheels. Three humans and a Machop had to cooperate to get it in.

The man who had disrupted them came into the lab after the great beast. "Isn't this a magnificent creature? It's a curious duel typed, Ice and Ground If we talk with the genetics researchers, we might be able to clone a live one."

Near him, the female professor frowned. "Ice and Ground? Sounds like it'd be related to the Swinub and Piloswine line. Well then can't you send it to someone who specializes with those Pokemon?"

Sputtering, the man turned to her. "We don't have anybody like that at the university! No way we're going to let it go to another school. And this is no Piloswine."

"Do you not read the books your field puts out?" she snapped. "It's got the right typing and it's furry with tusks. That, and fossil records have already shown the existence of this one. I could get you a reference in about ten minutes in a book of ancient herbivores. It's a Mamoswine, an evolution to Piloswine that was lost due to natural selection some ten thousand years ago. And I deal with Normal Pokemon. I'm not going to be much help with this one."

"Well the university president told us to send it here," the man argued back.

At that point, one of the Sentrets under the couch became bold, for its kind. He heard the word 'herbivore'. Didn't that mean it ate plants? So even if it was big, maybe it wasn't so scary. He started out, but two of his fellows pawed at him. Did he really want to do that? Even if the big Pokemon was no threat, that man arguing with the professor might be. He cooed back to them, telling them not to worry. Then he left the couch.

He scampered on his four paws across the lab surface, then looked at the big, what did she say? Mamoswine. He looked at the Mamoswine, even though his body was only a few inches high and this thing was maybe ten feet high. To get a better look, he curled his tail around him, then used its muscles to push his body up. He still couldn't look the thing in its face, but he could see its face better.

Its eyes opened.

He thought of bolting back to the couch. However, he was known to be less cautious than other Sentrets when he was curious. The others often said it was bad (he'd be a second too late for warning of a predator) but he stayed watching the Mamoswine for a moment. it moved its mouth some, so the Sentret dropped back down to the ground and went to the professor. "Se tra," he said, tugging at her pants to get her attention.

As he expected, she gave up the argument to ook down at it. "What is it, dear?"

He pointed over at the Mamoswine, who was trying to move around further.

The humans gawked at it a moment while the Sentret took a defensive position behind the professor. The archeologist she had been arguing with spoke first, "It, it's alive! This is amazing."

"My lab is still small for it," the professor replied, then pulled a Pokeball out of her lab coat. After checking it, she pressed the button and threw it at the Mamoswine. Because it was still stiff from being frozen and buried over ten thousand years, it was captured easily.

The archeologist sputtered. "What was that for? It's our discovery."

Going over to pick up the Pokeball, she said, "Well you put it in my lab. Take it up with the president and tell him to talk with me, or better yet, you could ask before doing anything like this again." Taking the Pokeball, she added, "I'm going to get this one checked up on, so get out of my lab so you don't keep scaring my Sentrets."

After a week or so, the Sentrets got used to the Mamoswine. She was quite mellow, not minding the smaller Pokemon so long as she got plenty of food to eat. Some of the younger and more adventurous ones liked to climb her shaggy fur and stand on their tails on her back, so they got the tallest and best view over the lab. When they did that, she didn't mind. She also was careful not to step on any of them. The lab had to be kept a bit cold for her, but the Sentrets didn't mind that so much.

It was night and the lab was mostly dark. The Mamoswine slept standing up, but various Sentrets had snuggled up on her back or near her feet. In the whole lab, only two were awake, two Sentrets that were holding sentry duty. Normally, not much happened and they just had to watch the large windows and the door. Tonight would be different.

Hearing footsteps in the hall, the door Sentret dropped down and moved closer to listen. Whoever it was wasn't speaking, but it sounded like two humans wearing boots. The professor had warned her students that if they were to go into the lab late for some reason, they should talk before opening the door, letting the Sentrets know that someone familiar was coming. These two weren't doing so.

The sentry called an alarm, instantly waking up all her companions and getting them to flee to safer locations. In the panic, one Sentret accidentally knocked over a labeled bin. Twenty-six Pokeballs spilled all over the floor. The Mamoswine was a deeper sleeper than the rest, but even she stirred at all the fuss caused. To keep a watch in safety, the door sentry hid in the bottom shelf of a bookcase.

"What is all that racket?" an unfamiliar male voice said. The lock rattled.

"Probably the other study Pokemon," a second stranger said.

Then the lock clicked, letting the two open the door. They were strange humans, dressed in all black, save for a red R on the front of their shirts. Immediately, they both looked to the sleepy Mamoswine. "That's it," one of them said. He pulled out a Pokeball and activated it. It hit her head, then dropped to the ground.

"I figured they'd already have captured it," the second one said, walking around the large Pokemon. He then spotted the mess of Pokeballs on the ground. "Aw man… how are we going to figure out which one has the Mamoswine in it?"

At her name being mentioned, the Mamoswine grunted. These two had scared off the little ones and she didn't like it. Then she trumpeted, startling both strangers. Catching one inside her tusks, she tossed him through the doors and out of the lab with a noisy bang. Seeing this, the sentry Sentret by the door made a decision. The Mamoswine was part of their group now, like the human professor. And if she was fighting, so could the rest of the group. The Sentret made a call of that, then got out of the bookshelf and dashed at the remaining stranger. Running under his feet, she tripped him, then got to another hiding spot. Then several other Sentrets rushed over the fallen man. They were capable of really hurting him like the Mamoswine could, but they could scare him silly.

Before long, university security came to check things out and captured the two black-clothed strangers.

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Mamoswine Platinum entry: A frozen one was dug up from soil dating back 10,000 years. It woke up to much amazement.

Sentret Leaf Green entry: A very cautious Pokemon, it raises itself up using its tail to get a better view of its surroundings.