Pokeumans: AB's tale, Part 2

I…. I just froze… I… I couldn't believe it…  I just managed to watch… As my own parents began to change like the people back at the tournament… This time it was even worse…  Seeing the two people I thought I could trust with anything… That I thought they will always back me up… Becoming puppets... "No… Please… No…" Betraying me like that… They slowly got up… And took out some kind of cans… And sprayed me with a purple gas… I fell down, completely helpless… Still asking, while crying… "Why…? Why…?"…  Before completely fainting, I could feel how they grabbed me and started carrying me away… Somewhere…


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"How did the guys on intel take so long detecting this one?!?" Magic asked, angrily "I don't know, but we have to get there ASAP, or we are going to lose him" I answered. He nodded while trying to run faster… It was a bit hard for him to keep up with me with those short Jigglypuff legs of his, but we needed to get out of the base before teleporting to our destination.

"Apparently, the kid was finally detected in the middle of some kind of convention, that's why we were chosen for this mission… You know what that means right…?" I asked as we were getting to the elevators "Yeah, yeah; I know, I know…" He answered annoyed while we got in… "It means I have to do that… Man, I hate that" He mumbled. I smiled briefly… Magic really wanted to forget that move… But it was useful, and right now, necessary.  Finally, we arrived at the surface "OK we are here, you got the location?" He asked "Yeah, let's go" I answered, taking his hand and teleporting us away

When I opened my eyes… Pandemonium… A lot of people were surrounding a few televisions… Probably some kind of videogame tournament…  But it was obvious some kind if uproar was going on… And then we saw someone running away, towards what appears to be the exit… The curious thing is that he was looking at his hands… Which were turning blue…

"Wake up Magic, come on!" For an instant, it appeared he was about to protest about me calling him that way, but he managed to stay focused and yelled "Roger!" I stopped and knocked down some of the Pokéxtinction sleeper agents (along some normal people… There wasn't time to waste, sadly) using Psychic and Magic started charging a Rollout. Those puppets looked confused… They weren't prepared to face completely transformed Pokéumans "ROLLOUT!" He yelled, rolling towards them at full speed, knocking down more of them. As he stopped, two of them tried to pull out their gas cans. I ran towards him and stop one of them with Psychic again, while he pounded the other one "Come on, I'll hold them; the kid's escaping, just finish this!" "OK, OK; on it!" He answered as he ran towards the stage.

We were in a hurry, so he had to knock out the guy holding the microphone in order to take it "Well… Here goes nothing…" He said… Before using Sing… His sweet voice covered the whole place, slowly making everyone fall asleep… Some of them even didn't have time to lay down or lean on something and just fell helplessly to the ground… It was kinda funny, I had to admit it.

Of course I didn't fall asleep… Being an 'insomniac' Pokémon had its advantages, heh heh "Good job partner!" I said while giggling "Yeah, yeah; whatever…" "I mean it, your voice is sooo cute…!" "OK, cut it off, we have a mission to do" "Right!" I said nodding, still giggling a bit "We have to try to catch him before he gets in more trouble!" I nodded again as we ran towards the exit "Pokéxtinction will handle the rest…" He said, as we looked back briefly

We arrived at the door and saw the guard. I stopped and checked him for a second "Mmm… He appears to be knocked out, not sleeping" "That means he's probably long gone, he didn't fell for my singing… We have to hurry" "But where? His house, maybe?" "Do you have the location, too?" "Of course; now come on, hurry, and take my hand!" I said, extending my hand towards him. He grabbed my hand and we teleported away once again.

When we arrived to his house… We quickly hide behind some bushes… And we saw the last thing we wanted to see… The infamous white truck… And it was already leaving… "Damn it…!" I whispered, frustrated "Sigh… We better wait for it to get out of the city and intercept it" Magic said "Yeah…" I said, grabbing his hand… An endless chain of teleports started, slowly and carefully following the truck though the city, we didn't want to get noticed by humans…

Until we arrived at the road near the woods "OK, now I have to catch up and stop the truck!" I said "Roger!" Magic answered once again, as I tried to teleport ahead of the truck… Just to make it easier, and to have time to prepare, I decided to teleport us high into a mountain the truck was about to climb… As we were waiting for the truck to arrive… It started to rain… At that time I wondered… If it was a bad sign …


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I had terrible nightmares while unconscious… I saw once again my friends changing… Not only becoming puppets, but horrible monsters; like terribly twisted versions of animals… I just ran away, escaped from them again… Only to see the same happen to my parents… So… Horrible… Just as they were about to attack me…  I woke up…

It was a rough wake up… My forehead got hit against something… Hard, it really hurt… Even some blood dripped from it… It took me quite a while to regain full consciousness… But it was obvious I was in some kind of vehicle, for the movement I could feel… Like… The back of some kind of truck… I got that blow because we were going through a rough road, it just couldn't be pavement, the truck trembled constantly, and sometimes it shook violently… And when I tried to move I realized my right ankle was chained to one of the walls…

At first… I didn't even try to escape… I just laid down and cry… It was just too much to digest… The changes on myself… And how… All… All the people reacted about it…  I even didn't understand any of this… "What's happening to me?!? And why…?!?!? WHY?!?!?!?" Of course, nobody answered… So I just kept crying for a while…  And I started hitting the floor of the truck with my fists… Some blood spilled from them too… Until they hurt so much I tried to hit it with my palms… It was then when it happened again… The Aura…

I looked at my palms once again… "Maybe… I could use it to try to escape…" Now even more blue fur covered them, and my fingers merged even more, up to their second phalanxes… Now I almost had only three… Fingers…? Doing this… Obviously accelerated the change… "Is it worth it…? I would escape and do what…? After all the ones who kidnaped me were my parents… Maybe… No… Those… Puppets… Weren't my parents…  But then again, now I couldn't trust anyone… Where to go…?" I pondered

Finally I sighed and thought, resigned "Anywhere better than here…" I looked closely the chain… A really sturdy chain… Even with my improved eyesight I couldn't find any damage on it… But, apparently, the link that connected the chain with the wall was thinner and smaller than the others… So I started hitting that link and the wall with my palms…

I can't explain the things I felt while doing that… I didn't stop at the sight of it, but I won't lie: seeing my hands change that fast, knowing that I was the one causing that speed-up… It was really disturbing…  Not to mention… It wasn't really painful… But it was a really weird sensation… No to mention the pain on my forehead, still dripping blood… By the time the link really started to look damaged, my hands were now some kind of paws… Only three short "fingers" completely covered in blue fur stained with my own blood… Blue fur that kept slowly extending through my arms…

And then… The truck… Lost control… And crashed…

This time at least I was conscious, so I managed to withstand the impact… It still hurt, but at least I didn't get knocked out or anything like that… Now the truck was on one of its sides… And to make things even worse… The truck began to catch in fire… And I was still chained… I had to get free as soon as possible, or I was dead…

As the fire spread…. I could feel the heat… The fire… Closing in…Slowly but steady… The smoke slowly filling my lungs choking me and beginning to burn them… I had to escape… "I… I… I can't give up… I have to get out…  Of here…!!!"  Then my whole body got surrounded with Aura, but this time I could feel… It was different… I don't know how, but… It felt even more powerful… I hit the chain one last time… And it finally broke…  Just as the door of the back of the truck suddenly opened…

I looked outside for a split second, and I managed to see some weird silhouettes outside… But right after that… I felt an unbearable pain on my forehead… And everything went black… I was completely helpless once again… I just couldn't move… I felt so tired… As the flames closed by…


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The rain could make stopping the truck really dangerous… "Claire, are you sure you can handle it… We don't want to kill everyone in the truck, you know…?" Magic asked "I know, I know; I got it, don't worry" I replied. We stood in the middle of the road… I started gathering psychic energy, my coin slowly moving from side to side… I could feel the psychic power slowly growing inside me as the time passed.

After a while waiting, we could hear the truck coming "Claire, be ready!" he said. I just nodded to answer, still focused… Finally, we could see as it appeared from behind the mountain, coming towards us… "Claire, now!" Again, I nodded as I moved my free paw in front of me and slowly moved it to the side struggling, like I was actually moving something heavy… And in some way I was, after all… Almost right before the truck would hit us, it suddenly turned and crashed, avoiding us… And almost falling down the cliff…

Luckily, I was able to stop it, but that didn't stop Magic from yelling "CLAIRE, BE MORE CAREFUL, YOU COULD HAVE…!" "I know, I know, I'm sorry…!"Quickly, the Pokéxtinction thugs escaped the truck… Only to fall asleep to our Sing and Hypnosis…

"OK, Claire, now open the door quickly before…"  He suddenly stopped talking because of 2 things… First the truck got caught on fire… And second… A really loud sound, like something falling really hard to the ground, could be heard from behind us… We immediately turned back but a cloud of dust blocked our sight at first… So I quickly turned back again and opened the backdoor of the truck only to get hit really hard on the back… So hard I lost grasp on my coin…

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO…!!!!!" I desperately yelled while falling down, as my coin was sent flying inside the truck… I quickly got up and ran inside the truck, completely forgetting about my partner and whoever had hit me… I couldn't live without my coin…! I needed it back NOW!

"Claire, get the kid, I'll hold him off…! GAHHH!!!" I heard my partner yell as I was drawing closer to the truck… I got in and looked around quickly, recklessly ignoring the fire… But it wasn't anywhere to be seen… Normally, I could feel my coin, as it was part of me… But it was of no use, it wasn't there… But how was that possible?!? I kept looking for it for a little while…

Then I noticed the kid unconscious, lying on the ground motionless… And the fire… I started to get burned, I had to help the kid first… So I grabbed him and dragged him out as fast as I could…

I never expected to find what I saw when I got out…


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The rain probably woke me up… I was just outside the truck… My whole body hurt… Probably burns, not to mention the pain in my forehead… I touch it a little… And gave up on the idea, it REALLY hurt… I then looked to the other side, still wondering how I got out… And I saw them…

As a lighting hit the land… I managed to see… A Shiny Lucario… You can probably imagine my surprise when I first saw it… But I didn't have much time to be surprised for that, as a Jigglypuff appeared rolling at full speed towards him followed closely by a Hypno; only to be stopped by the Lucario, who used one of his footpaws to step on the Jigglypuff, and then blocked the headbutt from the Hypno with only one hand paw like it was nothing… The Lucario grinned before pushing them back strongly, sending them flying back… I couldn't believe it… So it was real… I could see them in front of me… Real Pokémon… Battling… On this world… They really existed…?

And like that it continued for a while… The Lucario just stopped every attack like it was nothing; he didn't even bother in using moves of his own… The Jigglypuff normal type attacks didn't do much damage anyway… Its rollouts were stopped, its pounds deflected like nothing, and it was beaten before he had a chance to sing… And about the Hypno… It didn't use any of its psychic powers for some reason; it tried to attack the Lucario physically every time… And it was of no use as well…

Finally, both the Jigglipuff and the Hypno got tossed near me… While the latter got knocked out, the first, obviously frustrated said "OK, I had enough of this!" Before running away… Yeah… He talked (For the sound of his voice I assumed he was male)… Not only that… When he fell near me… He accidentally dropped… A red flower…

But my attention was focused on the battle… When he reached the Lucario… He fell asleep… "Did he use… Rest…?" I mumbled, confused… The Lucario just grinned and prepared to hit him once again… Bu this time… He got hit by… Something… He yelled really loudly on pain and got blew up at an incredible speed…

I couldn't believe it… That Jigglypuff… Just used Rest… On Super Smash Bros fashion! Plus the red flower… Could that mean…? Is he the same Jigglypuff from my dream…? What did that mean…?

But the calm was short lived…   The Lucario just landed safely, as the attack was nothing… Well, I think he was in pain, but the anger in his eyes was more notable than his pain… For an instant it appeared like he was going for the sleeping JIgglypuff… But then, for my horror… He noticed me… And slowly started walking towards me…

"I have to do something… I have to do something…!" I mumbled in the meantime… I desperately tried to stand up… I slowly got kneeled, struggling to get my feet working…  Helping myself with my hands, I finally got on my feet, and slowly got standing straight… By that time he was only a few yards away… I got into some kind of battle stance… And waited…

Probably it was only a few seconds… But for me were like ages… He got closer… And closer… Until he got next to me… And kept walking… I turned around… And saw… For some reason… I don't know… Maybe he wanted to show me his strength… Or what he was planning to do with me… But… He pushed the truck towards the cliff, making it fall down… And then turned back as well, facing me once again…

He was shorter than me (again his voice… And I don't know… Something else… Told me he was male)… But… He still was very impressive… Imposing… Almost sweeping… But I noticed something else… The color of his fur… Seemed like… Washed… Dim… Like… Darker…
Again, the moment of calm was short lived… He slowly walked towards me once again… I could see the… Anger on his eyes… He really wanted me destroyed… But why…?!?

When he was close enough I tried to hit him with my palms, but he just laughed and grabbed me by my wrists before I could reach him… My Aura barely touched him, he just giggled at the sight of it… I tried to push him back, towards the cliff, but then I heard him laugh a little as he stopped like it was nothing and hit me with both his paws on my back…

I yelled loudly from the pain as I fell down and hit the ground hard… He didn't stop there, he walked next to me and kicked me on one of my sides hard, making me yell again and roll… Now laying on my back, he grabbed me by the neck with his left paw and lifted me… Our red eyes met as another lighting hit the land… It was over…

His eyes… How to describe them…? Compared to mine, his eyes looked a lot darker… Dim… Hollow… But unlike the eyes from the puppets… There was still some life on them… Some trace of will… But was it really free will…? He smirked as he took back his right arm, and some Aura emitted from his paw, preparing to deliver a final blow…

I felt tempted to close my eyes… But for some reason, I didn't… I kept looking at him… And then… For an instant… He looked me in the eyes again… But this time it was different… His eyes shined for an instant… And he hesitated…  He closed his eyes and lowered his head, shaking it slightly, like confused… He was like that for a little while… A while long enough to…

"NO!" Someone yelled. We both turned to look towards the point the yell was heard. The Hypno was running toward us, really fast… The Lucario managed to release me, but he couldn't do anything else to defend himself… The Hypno tackled him… And they both fell down the cliff…

I will never forget the cry from the Jigglypuff as he ran towards the edge, and then looked down, extending his arm uselessly…

"CLAIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…!!!!!!!!!!!!"