Adapting to an unwanted life

by Swag Striker

A professional biologist uses his knowledge of the adaptative nature of Earth's animals to fight against Pokemon of any kind. He'll need every advantage he can get when he's no longer a human and now has the unfamiliar form of a Weavile. He must get used to it quickly and find the being who did this to him or he'll be stuck like this forever. (Weavile SI)

5. Chapter 5: testing intelligence

Chapter 5: testing intelligence and a new face

A/N: 33 favs and 59 follows! That's insane. Once again, thank you all so much for the support, I really didn't expect myself to do this well on my first story on fanfiction. I will start to do a Review Response at the bottom of each chapter from now on, but I won't give any spoilers. After all, this is a write-on-the-move story.

Chapter 5 START

Team Sarah was casually walking along Route 3 for a few hours now. They would have been slightly further ahead if it wasn't for Sarah's constant stopping to dote over the Pokemon inhabiting the grassy land. Right now she was stroking a Lillipup.

"Awww who's a good boy. That's right you are o yes you are." She said, rubbing the small dog's belly.

"Lilli pup pup!" He had his tongue out from the pleasure. "Awww yeah, that hits the spot. Just a little down and yeeeeesssss."

Theodore wanted to observe the specimen but was too busy growling over his aching arms.

"I've been carrying you for over 3 hours. Are you telling me you still can't walk?" He asked Anubis, who had gotten a little too comfortable over Theodore's great generosity.

"I still can't." he replied, digging his head deeper into Theodore's scarffy neck. It was so comfortable that he almost fell asleep multiple times. If it wasn't for Sarah screaming PUPPIES, he would have. Sarah had stopped cuddling over the Lillipup, who had disappeared into the tall grass.

"According to my pokedex, if we keep a steady pace- without stopping for any cuties- then we should reach Nacrene City in 20 hours. Quite close really. And yes I did say Nacrence City instead of Nimbasa City which I've constantly been saying for the last 2 chapters because the author of this story is an idiot, but everyone is allowed to make mistakes."

20 hours isn't too long! Haven't these guys heard of a motorway.

"Alright, that's enough." He tried to drop him, but Anubis kept his hold. "I said get off fam."

Sarah looked at the 2 struggling against each other before sighing.

"I suppose this would be a good time for a break. Athena get the table ready we're having lunch." She said, putting down her bag before pulling out a foldable, brown table from it. This startled Theodore. Even in its folded form, the table was way too large to fit into her backpack. His eyes grew larger when she pulled out more camping equipment such as a camp stove and a pan.

He had to know how this was possible. With newfound strength formed from his curiosity, he dropped Anubis who faceplanted onto the ground. He walked to the brown bag.

It's just a simple 35 by 50 bag. That's how it looked like on the outside. It was a normal backpack a child would take to school, not a camping bag that would have many other pockets for extra storage. From what I suspect, it wouldn't need those.

The inside showed a whole different story. Sticking his head in, he saw how huge it was; it contained many more things like a tent and other crap. It was like a rucksack.

"What the fuck is going on?" Looking out again... backpack. In again... Storage unit. He kept sticking his head in and out the backpack that it made him dizzy before falling backwards.

"If I hadn't seen it before I would be startled too." Sarah said. "It has special properties made by psychic type energy that makes the inside bigger than the outside. It's made by Nexacore."

Athena yelped at the name. She had seen them many times on TV.

"I remember seeing their new mango, strawberry ice cream coming out in Castellia City." She gained a dark aura for a moment that caught him and Anubis by surprise. "And we better be the first ones to eat it otherwise...he he he there will be heads rolling."

"...You said that pretty grimly." She broke out of her stupor.

"Huh, what were we talking about again?"

Theodore was thinking in his head about how psychic energy worked. Was it brainwaves coming from their head or maybe it's like the energy I use when summoning shadow claw but they send it as a disorienting projectile or it could be like a Lucario's sensory bangs. Even then it shouldn't be able to change space itself unless...

Anubis watched Theodore go off on one of his rambles again while he was going around in circles. Transverse, dimensions. He didn't get a single word he was saying.

"Hey Anubis, can you help me put the table together?" Athena asked, struggling to reach some parts with her very short arms. She was confused when he turned his head to the distant forest.

"Huh, didn't he hear me? Anubis do you want to help me, I need a tall 'mon for this." She shouted, but again he didn't answer her. She approached him, but when she got close he scruffled back. Her smile fell.

Doesn't he trust us, we did save him from the Dreamyard. I wish you wouldn't hide from us and realise we're your friends. NO Athena, Stop! You shouldn't be selfish. He was hurt by some mean people and needs some space. Athena's smile returned, brighter than ever and filled with resolve. Don't you worry Anubis, you will succumb to our cuteness and be our friend.

She walked back, using the power gained from her new resolution to properly unfold the table and put it upright. Theodore had broken off his rant. Aww I did it again.

He looked at Sarah, wondering what was taking her so long. She was struggling with working out her camp stove and frequently checked the manual before pressing the supposed buttons.

"C'mon work with me, I have to show I can look after myself." After seeing a lack of results for a few minutes, he walked up to her and snatched the manual. He quickly looked over the instructions. So she wasn't struggling for no reason. These instructions are total garbage. The pictures weren't in the best order and the writing part was more wordy than necessary. He could picture himself throwing the whole thing in the bin on a bad day.

Sarah observed her furry friend. He wasn't aimlessly looking around the pages. He can read! He twisted a nozzle of the camp stove where a small red light began to illuminate. He then looked over the manual again before pressing another button, then another, then a final one before the fire had started. She stared at it in bewilderment. This Pokemon had managed to figure out how to start her machine in under a minute whereas she would have been standing for an hour trying to get it going.

She wasn't going to let this go, it intrigued her curiosity. Especially not after what he pulled off in the Dreamyard with that weird pipe trick.

"Weavile did you have a trainer before?" He shook his head strongly. "Then how do you know so much? You're smarter than any Pokemon I've come across heck you're smarter than some humans like you were able to read the manual. Did you learn human language by yourself?"

"...Weavile."

"Heh, should have known." She giggled. "Nevermind, we can explore the secrets of your brain another time but for now, lunch. Athena, Anubis come I've got your food right here." She placed 3 bowls of Pokemon food on the ground. The 2 quickly jumped in like there was no tomorrow, but Theodore glared at his.

Nope. nu uh. I'm not going to eat out of a bowl that's on the ground this time. I may have done it the first time for my survival but this has become too demeaning.

Theodore had an idea. The pebble-looking food had a gravel-like texture that would melt in his mouth. He first got a spare plate from Sarah's bag along with a knife and fork, then placed the food on it. Just like play-doh, he molded it into a familiar gourmet food usually representing the rich. It was a steak; not a good-looking one but hey... it's a steak.

"Ahhhh dinner is served." He cut a big piece and quickly ate it.

"You're going to make it seem like you're a traveling companion instead of my Pokemon." She took a bite from her rice curry.

"I'm neither *crunch*." After finishing, cleaning, and then packing, Anubis approached Theodore with a similar guilty expression.

"C-Can you carry me again?" He asked.

"...No." He turned and walked away along the path. He stopped though, startled once hearing quiet sobbing. No way is he crying? They all saw the small tears coming out. This isn't how I expected the famous Riolu to behave.

"Weavile!" Sarah half yelled. "You should be helping Anubis not making him cry. Come here Anubis, I'll help you."

She scooped him up and cradled him like a newborn child. With his weight, he might as well be one. He didn't look comfortable in her arms though, not relaxing himself into her embrace. Theodore smirked when he saw her bag on the floor.

"Whoops, I forgot about the bag. I can't carry you and the bag so what do I do hmmmm?" She looked at the sky for a moment. Should I ask Athena to- no that wouldn't work. That's when an idea popped into her head, causing her to slightly grin maliciously. This always works.

"WEAVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILE." She cried. Literally. There was a waterfall of tears falling onto the ground. "PLEASE HOLD ANUBIS PLEAAAAASSSEE PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

"Alright for fuck's sake, I'll carry him just shut your fatass mouth!" His long ears were tightly folded as was Anubis's. Their sense of hearing was higher than a human's, so it felt like a speaker was playing right next to their ears. Athena watched the display, shaking her head in dismay. Here we go again.

"Awwww thank you so much Weavile, I never knew you were so kind." Her tears magically disappeared.

He gave Anubis another piggy bank ride, his arms now recovered. His infuriated eyes contrasted with his ocean-blue irises.

"I'm so-"

"DON'T!" Anubis kept his mouth closed. Theodore mumbled, "A dog like you should be the one carrying me."

To make his day worse small drops of rain fell as dark clouds widely surrounded the forest. The group grimaced as they ran along the path while getting soaked. Sarah quickly recalled Athena and Anubis while Theodore reluctantly stayed out. They ran as quickly as they could as Sarah kept a note in her head, buy a chocolate fudging umbrella.

"Now I know why cats hate water. I feel so heavy."

"There! there's a place over there." she said before they ran to a large flat building in the distance. The sign showed that it was a nursery. Frantically knocking, the door opened where a female teacher with a suit and a skirt had seen their soaked form before ushering them in.

"You're lucky it's a school day otherwise you would have been stuck in that god-awful rain. You can stay in the classroom where I'll be having my next lesson. I'm Emily by the way."

"Thank you so much. I'm Sarah and this is Theodore."

Sarah was drying her jumper near the fireplace where Theodore and Anubis sat. Theodore had already dried off. Athena sat next to a chubby kid, clapping her hands as they all sang the nursery rhyme of ABCs.

"W X Y and Z. Now I know my ABCs. Next time won't you sing with me." She was greatly enjoying herself.

"What are they doing?" Anubis asked.

"They are learning to read and write which is a large part of human language and is greatly underestimated in modern society because they don't see the consequences of being without it. It's very powerful as it allows the preservation of knowledge which brings exponential progress in a species' advancement."

Anubis looks attentively at Emily writing her name on the board. He grabs a nearby pen and paper. He tries to imitate her grip fo the pen but it kept slipping through his fingers.

"Dummy, this is how you do it." He picks it up before placing his fingers in a specific way. "You have an opposable thumb probably due to the bone rush move. It's very useful for grip. Here you go."

Anubis looked again at the teacher's name but narrowed his eyes at each letter when they got too difficult to comprehend. He tried copying the symbols on the board, but Theodore only saw a bunch of scribbles.

"What's wrong? You just saw how she wrote those letters, so you could at least be a little accurate." He took this as a reprimand and stuttered.

"I-I don't know. The symbols when I look at them it it feels like I don't understand them when I know what they are. I-I just...I-" Theodore sat right next to him before holding his paw with his own. He guided his paw to write in an intricate way, showing a symbol he didn't seen on the board.

"This is the letter 'A'."

"A." He repeated, struggling to comprehend the letter for what it is.

"Next is 'N'."

"N." they repeated a few more before ending with the letter S. Anubis held the back of his head in pain.

"Just one last thing. How many fingers am I holding?"

"2." He responded. This proved Theodore's suspicion.

The primary visual cortex gets sent the visual information of written words then transmits the information to two other places in the brain until reaching Wernicke's area for comprehension. The primary visual cortex does exist in Pokemon shown by him being able to read my 2 fingers and give that sign a meaning. However, him having a headache from trying to comprehend a few written letters shows that it doesn't have as many neurons as a human's.

"Do you know what you've just written?" He smirked at the canine's confusion. "It's your name. It is you, 'Anubis'."

He stared in wonder at the word despite the slight pain it was causing to his brain as he tried to absorb the visual information. I've written my name, 'Anubis'. For the first time in so long, he smiled. A genuine smile from his own success and not the one trying to abysmally impress someone. He made sure to ingrain these letters in his head.

"Ha ha, you should see your face. It's like you're 5 years old." Theodore doubled over with mirth.

"I'm 12 moon cycles old." This made him stop his laughing fit.

He's 3 months old yet is able to read and write. a human child 3 times that age would struggle. He wondered what else the young Pokemon would be capable of. After all, they just happened to have come across this teacher's lesson on the alphabet, so who's to say that there weren't other things he could accomplish. Theodore now saw him in a different light.

It made Anubis feel a bit uncomfortable; the look of respect shown on his face is very rarely given to others. I may have underestimated you Pokemon.

The bell rang signalling break time. The kids got excited as it was wet break and they could play with their toys in the class. They brought out a huge box from the corner. Athena got excited before walking over, grabbing Anubis's paw, and taking him to some wooden building blocks that the kids weren't using. They were simple blocks that had the alphabet written on them. This is a good opportunity to test him.

He decided to join them. Athena was building a basic tower while asking Anubis to build the garage, but he didn't know what a garage was so that made it awkward.

"Why don't you build your name. Lets see how well you remember it despite your brain's development."

"How would I do that with the blocks?" He asked.

"Look at the symbols on those blocks. Some of them are the same from before." When he narrowed his eyes on the blocks, the letters from before had become slightly visible. Grabbing the correct ones with a bit of struggle, he built his name.

"Excellent excellent! You showed symbol pattern recognition." Theodore clapped his hands.

"Can you show me how to spell your name." Anubis asked before remembering he wasn't given one by Sarah but is stunned when he hears.

"Theodore."

"Hm?"

"My name is Theodore Nieoldiek." He grabbed some of the blocks and spelled it out for him. Anubis made sure to ingrain his friend's name even more than his own. After all, he was his saviour.

The bell rang much to the kids' dismay. It felt like 2 minutes even though it was actually 15. They reluctantly put away their toys before sitting in rows on the floor again awaiting for the next lesson. Theodore went back to the fireplace, Anubis did too to take a small nap while Athena sat on the lap of a little girl and paid attention to the teacher.

"All right class we're going to carry on our maths lesson from yesterday. Can someone remind me where we left off?"

"It was adding 2 digit numbers." A chubby kid said proudly.

"That's correct Simonns but please put your hand up next time. As you can see class when you blah blah blah."

Athena was fidgeting with her fingers as she looked around trying to understand what the humans were saying. She didn't know what that symbol Emily was writing was. When she added more symbols and called them by their names, it was starting to give her a headache. '2' the only two I know is when I want two more scoops of ice cream.

"Athena, come here." Theodore called her for some reason. She got off her friend's lap which made the girl aww in dismay then sat in front of him.

"I have 2 apples-" He held 2 fingers

"Really! Can I ha-"

"Don't interrupt! Now as I was saying. I have 2 apples, my friend gives me 2 more." He said, holding up another 2 fingers. "How many apples do I have now?"

"4." She simply answered. Good, maths mainly relies on the intraparietal sulcus which Anubis proved Pokemon do have.

"I now have 5 apples. I give 4 to my friend. How many do I have?" Athena didn't answer casually this time, using her fingers like Theodore to help her.

"1."

"Correct." Now for the true test.

"My friend wants 15 apples. I can only give him 3 apples in batches. How many batches do I need for my friend to have 15 apples?" There's no way she's going to get this right. "Here, you can use these lego pieces to help you count. Each lego piece is 1 apple."

It was taking her a while. Once, she had accidentally made a mistake and restarted. Her headache was growing more painful, but she really wanted to complete this for him. It seemed important to him.

"15." Theodore choked on his own spit when he heard that. After hitting his chest a few times, he asked her to repeat herself to hear '15' again. Impossible. I know multiplication is fundamentally addition, but it is its own principle. It's very difficult for us to make a new principle from not learning it before yet she- A POKEMON- was able to do it with ease.

"Incredible. You're incredible Athena." He said softly.

"Really!?" She glowed, all pain disappearing in a second.

"I-I mean." Before he could retract his statement, he was tightly hugged in a bear grip.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Theodore felt another unfamiliar feeling in his heart. It was as if a long-forgotten sensation, dormant for years, had stirred up from its sleep. His chest tightened uncomfortably from the sensation he had distanced himself from.

"Get off me." He growled to which she broke the hug. He stared at the teacher, seeing her write a new set of equations. He wondered. Today has reminded me how powerful writing is and oh my god I'm an idiot. I could have communicated to people through writing this whole time. He facepalmed.

The bell rang again signaling the start of lunchtime and waking up Anubis. Perfect timing as the rain had stopped 5 minutes ago. The kids rushed off to the small yard before Emily could hold them back.

"Heh, kids. So Sarah do you want to join me for lunch in the kitchen? I have a bunch of sandwiches and some leftover cake. If your Pokemon aren't hungry they can play in the yard."

"Thank you so much, Emily I love cake. Are you guys hungry?" They shook their heads. Actually, Anubis was hungry but Theodore told him it wouldn't be wise to eat full meals in the state he's in and it would be better to gradually increase his meal size over time. They went to the yard.

Athena stared down all the different playground equipment at her disposal. Kids were playing on the swings, the slide and some were climbing the climbing frame. She saw the empty playhouse isolated in the corner on top of a sandpit. With no time to waste, she grabbed Anubis's paw and carried him there. He looked back at Theodore with a worried gaze, but Theodore wasn't paying attention to them.

"Let's build a sand castle." He didn't like this; being stuck in this tight structure that was a bit dark. The lonely atmosphere reminded him of the Dreamyard laboratory. Just the thought made him shiver and hug himself.

"Hey, come on." She tugged at him, reminding him where he was. "If you want to be part of the family then you have to let us treat you like one. Here, here's a spade. You first dig some sand and put it in this bucket then you tip it over and veola. Good job, you made your first sand castle."

"Woah." He looked in awe at the magnificent structure only fit for the gods. Then he slammed it. He giggled, finding it amusing to crush the sand castle until realising that Athena was the one who built it. Anxiety hit him as the thoughts of what she would say made him shiver. She's not going to shout at me is she or worse she'll pummel me then tell Sarah. She'll tie me up and bury me under the sand, making sure I can't escape. Theodore wouldn't help me either after seeing the disappointing display.

His thoughts were cut short after hearing a loud unexpected laughter next to him.

"Nice. Let's build more and then we can build a huge pyramid." The anxiety leaves him as he joins her, still a bit hesitant, but happy in their creative activity.

Theodore was incredibly bored as he slouched on a bench in the corner. It had been a whole 2 minutes of watching some snotty little kids messing around uselessly in the yard. Like seriously, go study about black holes or something.

He grabbed a small rock and threw it at a large lego house some of the kids were still building. They cried which made him snicker before walking over to the ones on the swing and then pushing a boy with glasses onto the floor. He scraped his leg leaving a small bleeding wound. The nerdy boy cried loudly from the searing pain.

Emily threw open the door hearing the multiple cries from the other room. Sarah had followed behind her with a concerned look.

"What is going on here!?" Emily angrily shouted, thinking that it was a typical child's fight, especially when seeing Jimmy's injury. All the kids had pointed at an unexpected suspect, the Weavile. She doubled back, confused about why a Pokemon would do that. Sarah had apologised profusely to Emily and the kids before stamping her way to the grey furball with a deep frown. His eyes widened slightly, thinking she couldn't ever be angry with her dandelion personality.

"Theodore, what do you have to say for this! Go and apologise to those poor students, honestly, I would never have expected you of all Pokemon to do something this immature." She can get cross when she needed to be.

"Weavile weave. It wasn't me."

"I know that wasn't a sincere apology. Now go and properly say you're sorry." The shouting was so loud that Athena and Anubis stuck their heads out the mini-house's window to see what was going on.

"Listen brat, I'm not your child, not your Pokemon, and certainly not your friend. You've only been holding me back with your crap when I could have reached Nacrene City by now. You know what forget you, I'm leaving. I don't need you!" He leaped over the 4-foot fence and walked away. Anubis gave immediate chase, but stopped at the fence, unable to jump over with his still recovering legs.

"Wait don't leave me! Please come back!" He screamed, but Theodore didn't look back. Sarah only looked at the grey feline in disdain as he was starting to disappear into the forest.

Wait, why didn't I take the pathway to Nacrene City? Shit. Theodore found himself lost in the midst of large trees that seemed neverending. He tried walking back but ended up deeper in the forest. A slight panic rose at the back of his head as this felt like those stories of people wandering in the forest and never being seen again.

Nah I've got this. I'll show her I don't need her. I can read English and I understand technology what more do you need? Cutting some bushes out the way with his claws, he wandered around for what felt like hours to see the same sight over and over again. He was growing infuriated.

*SNAP*

Theodore swiftly jumped to the side, narrowly dodging a skinny tree that would have crushed him. He was stunned. That was a very random thing to happen to him at that moment. He inspected the tree, seeing its weak trunk before carrying on as normal. Another minute passed.

*SNAP*

"What the fuck!" Another one fell in front of him, so he dived to the right. A loud crunch of its branches was heard along with the rustling of the leaves. The wind had quickly started to grow quicker and quicker until it was like a tornado. Many more snaps occurred as he rapidly glanced at his surroundings, seeing a bunch of trees falling towards him. They gave chase. He sprinted with no direction as many trees kept falling; trailing him. He could hear their crashes getting closer.

There! Just 400 metres away, was the pathway, and behind it was the nursery. There was a small graze of a sharp branch on his back before he dived into the opening.

"Fucking hell that was an experience. There's only one explanation for this." He said before looking up to the sky and bringing up both middle fingers. "Screw you Shinigami, suck my nuts."

Anubis was sitting Isolated, facing the corner of the classroom with Sarah and Athena's worried gazes on him. He was thinking that there was no way Theodore would abandon him. Nu-uh. He saw how impressed his friend was when he had spelled out their names. He could tell from his aura that it was genuine. However, the dark thoughts returned. Maybe it wasn't good enough. I should have been better and not required any help like the Lucario I'm trying to become. My line needs to be beyond that.

The slamming of the door had broken him out of those thoughts and made him beam. It was his saviour. He would have jumped on him if it wasn't for his wearied frown.

"It's only been 20 minutes, it felt like a few hours." He looked at the clock. "Time does fly when you're having fun."

He walked past the stupefied Athena before grabbing Sarah's hand and forcefully taking her to the board. Shinigami's messing around with me whenever I'm away from her. It's clear that the 'lessons' he wants to teach me rely on her and the team, so even if I take away my pokeball I'm still bound to her. I have no choice but to stick with her, but I won't accept being a dog.

Ignoring the teacher, he grabbed a white chalk and wrote on the board. 'LETS MAKE A DEAL'.

They gasped. Emily brought up a shaking finger.

"D-Did your Weavile J-just." Sarah didn't answer and was more interested in what he had to say.

"Go on."

'I'LL STICK WITH YOU AND HELP YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY WITHOUT BEING A PAIN IN THE NECK AND IN EXCHANGE YOU HAVE TO FULFILL MY REQUIREMENTS'

"Which are?"

'I HAVE TO REMAIN OUTSIDE OF THE POKEBALL AT ALL TIMES. IF I REFUSE TO DO SOMETHING I DON'T WISH TO DO OUTSIDE OF THE JOURNEY THEN I DON'T HAVE TO. AND FINALLY, IF WE COMPLETE THE WHOLE CIRCUIT OF UNOVA THEN YOU HAVE TO TAKE US TO SPEAR PILLAR IN SINNOH. ALL OF THESE ARE TO BE DONE UNLESS SAID OTHERWISE'

It was an odd set of requests coming from a Pokemon, but he wasn't an ordinary Pokemon. She gave it a small thought and decided.

"Alright, I can do that. I'm not exactly sure why you would want to go to Spear Pillar though." When going over some memories of the Pokemon anime, he realised that the best way to get back to his universe is to go to none other than the ones who control time and space because he's not going to be meeting Shinigami anytime soon.

He held out a hand for her to shake to which she did. This was the next step of both of their journeys and one that will forever change their lives.

(someplace else)

"What are we going to tell him?" The black-haired plasma grunt nervously asked.

"Me! You're the one who lost against a baby psychic Pokemon while having a dark type. If anyone should tell him of our failure it's you."

"Do I have to?" He hesitated to walk through the automatic doors. He didn't even want to be in the same room as the Doctor let alone his experiments.

"Ahhhh isn't it my favourite assistant and some other guy. I take it the mission was successful. That Dream Mist will bring wonders to my research." The Doctor was a tall man with scruffy blonde hair and pale skin. He was wearing a lab coat over standard clothing. He had his back towards them as he inspected the edge of the scalpel he picked up.

He dug it deep into whatever he was cutting open and slowly opened the incision. He only wore plastic gloves and nothing more; no mask and no sterilisation as if he didn't care about the subject's life. The grunts had to hold their noses because of the strong smell of iron stenching the room. Doctor Vikasa moved to the side to record some things on his computer. The grunts closed their eyes before they could see the remains of the hapless Pokemon; one of them was traumatized enough. If it wasn't for Lord Ghetsis telling them how this was to help the Pokemon race become free then they would have left Team Plasma.

"Umm well you see sir the thing is, is that we got the Munna and were very close to extracting the Dream Mist but..."

"But?"

"T-There was a trainer with a very powerful Ralts and s-some other Pokemon I don't even recognise and they were a force to be reckoned with sir. She stopped us before we could extract a sufficient amount of the Dream Mist. If it wasn't for her then-"

"Stop." He simply said, silencing them to the point he couldn't hear their breathing.

"Excuses excuses." People exaggerate a story when they're defeated to save face. "I know that it was only a child who beat you. How humiliating it is for Team Plasma to have such weaklings to accomplish our goals, although a Ralts would be an interesting specimen to dissect. One thing I hate in life is weakness. I only respect power and nothing more. I'll let the two of you go this time, but next time failure won't be tolerated, understood."

"Y-Yes sir. Understood sir."

"Then get lost." And they both hurriedly left.

"Pid?" The Pokemon had stirred slightly awake with a numbness in its abdomen growing more and more searing.

"Great you're awake. Perfect timing too as the anasthesia should be wearing off, so while I observe a bit of your organs, I can test your tolerance to pain too. A 2 for 1 deal." The frightened Pidove trembled, her delicate chest rising and falling in shallow, rapid breaths as she watched the menacing tip of the scalpel inching closer and closer. Amidst the silence of the night, only the echoes of her screams pierced the air.

Chapter End

Jeyko: You brought a smile on my face.

CryptidQuest: I definitely am.

Kezoka474: After reading your review I almost thought you were the author. Malice is an interesting word that we'll be seeing throughout the story. Also, Theodore has now given his requests in the deal as he won't allow himself to be a subservient slave.

Clam The Zooted One: Theodore can you come here for a second. "Yeah, what's up." Can you do me a favour and never hit Athena, I think this guy will kill me if you do WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?

Ralmos: I won't be making the characters too complex as this is my first proper story, but I do want them to have their own unique personality and feel more than some cliche anime character. I will try to handle Theodore and Anubis carefully as you're right in how they can go off the rails if not handled properly. Trust me, this story will only get better. Great feedback.