Chapter 10
"Go, Raticate!"
"Go, Arbok!"
"Go, Gloom!"
"Go, Sneasel!"
"Go, Pinsir!"
"Go, Mewtwo!!" exclaimed the leader.
"Mewtwo?!?" Kom and I exclaimed. I looked at the Pokemon and noticed they all had two things in common. They had beating marks all over their body and something else. That something else was their eyes. All of their eyes were of a light blue color, so blue that it nearly blended with the whites of their eyes, making them look blind. Every single one of these Pokemon had these features, even Mewtwo! It was very intimidating.
Before I had a chance to think, they all charged. I was frozen with terror as they all lunged forth at the same time, only to slam into an invisible wall.
{Leave...now...I don't think I can hold on very long.}
Kom and I ran down the halls. This was crazy because we didn't even know where we were going. We just kept running and running. After what seemed like an eternity, Alakazam joined with us.
{I couldn't hold them any longer. They're gaining fast. Hurry!}
"Can't you teleport us out?" I gasped. I kept running and my heart was pounding. I never was the athletic type.
{I could teleport myself, but I haven't mastered the technique of teleporting others.}
Kom was already ahead of him, but he suddenly smacked his head and exclaimed. "I'm such an idiot!"
"Now's not the the time -huff- to-" I was cut off by Kom.
"No! I mean, Ponyta, go!" He threw his ball way down the hallway.
"Nyta!" Of course! We got on Ponyta and galloped. His hooves cluncked onto the floor making a clickety-clack sound.
"Where are we going?" I asked. We were going so fast that everything was a blur.
"I don't know, but I'm going to try to get to the end of the hall! See if it'll take us out!"
Suddenly the alarm sounded even louder and shriller. Ponyta lost his balance and fell to the floor. This made me drop the egg which slid away for a few feet. I scrambled up and wobbled to the egg. I picked it up and it was cracked!
"Oh, no." I moaned.
"Don't stop now! We have to keep going!" He tugged my shoulder. Ponyta covered his ears and wimpered so Kom called him back. So we had to run all over again.
They were gaining on us and so were their Pokemon! We kept running and Kom suddenly crashed into something and fell backwards. Oh, no! It was a barriar! I stopped and turned around to find Mewtwo had already caught up with us.
The alarm got higher and louder and I had to cover my ears. It was too much! But Mewtwo was unaffected by all of this!
He walked slowly towards us and raised his hand. Kom rose to the ceiling and then was dropped. Next it was my turn. But I didn't get a chance to put down my egg. So when I was dropped, I summoned all my strength to flip my body in midair so that I would fall on my back instead. It was very painful.
I couldn't get it up. It hurt too much. By now, the others had reached here and we couldn't get away. Kom didn't move, he just laid face down on the floor. Blood was trickling from under him, but I didn't know where it was coming from. I was bleeding on my elbow since I had accidentally crashed it into the wall as I was turning.
{Don't say anything. I can't let them know I'm here. And don't worry about the hearing me, they can't. I'll try to go get help.}
The leader walked up to Kom and kicked him. He didn't move.
"You should have known better than to oppose me." He kicked me right in my bloody elbow.
"Ow!" I exclaimed. "Hasn't your mother ever taught you to never hit a lady??"
He chuckled. I couldn't see what was so funny. "Take them away."
Two of the guys tried to pick me up, but I made myself go limp so that it would be harder for them to pick me up. They grunted and a third person came over. Kom was easier to pick up because he wasn't struggling. It wasn't until then I saw where his wounds were, his forehead and knee.
"Clean them up and inject them with the dosage."
"What? No!!" I struggled even more.
"Sir, the girl is putting up a struggle. It's near impossible to move her. And she won't let go of her egg."
"Then bring the syringes. Give her double the beginning dosage. And bring that egg to me."
"No!! Let go!" I didn't have the strength to fight as they ripped it from my grip.
He examined. "It's already cracked, useless." He dropped it!
I lunged forward and caught it with my hands.
"Still struggling?" He chuckled. I saw Kom stir from the corner of my eye.
"Who are you and what are you doing?" I panted and I held the egg to my chest.
"My name is Horace." Then he picked up my face and looked straight into my eyes. "I happen to be in the middle of a very important experiment. I'm going to be switching around the genes of both Pokemon and 'Earth' creatures. Afterwards, I will probably be able to create a device that will control all Pokemon and turn them as dumb and witless as the 'Earth' creatures."
"They're not dumb and witless! They've all adapted different ways of living and it's amazing how many different varieties there are! They communicate differently. They mate differently. They hunt differently. They come in different shapes! You can't call them dumb and witless! For example, the octopus can change it's color to blend in its surroundings, but I doubt you'll even know what an octopus is!" I couldn't let them insult my planet!
He raised his brow. "You can't possibly know more than us on behalf of the 'Earth' creatures. That is unless you from 'Earth' also. That could prove to be very useful."
Oops. He let go of my chin and I collapsed onto the floor. "Take them to seperate rooms. I want to girl to be cleaned up and taken to the Experimental Room. Don't bother with the mind dosage. I need to get her opinion of all this. It wouldn't do to have her as a mindless child."
"But, sir, she puts quite a struggle."
"Then muffle her with the Sleep Powder and Spore extract."
Not the towel again! They muffled me and I blinked rapidly. I fought hard to keep awake, but it was obviously not enough.
Have you ever heard of Deja Vu? It means it feels like something that you could have sworn happend before happens again, whether it's a dream or not. My head was groggy and I was tied to a chair. This seemed too familiar...
"You're awake." Horace was sitting in a chair in front of me, tapping his fingers upon each other the way bad guys do when they are thinking something evil. I didn't like that one bit.
"Untie me!"
"Not until I get some answers." I couldn't understand how he remained so calm. I guess it was because I was in some sort of trauma and I was very nervous and paranoid at that time.
"I don't know anything! Let me go!" I struggled, but the rope seemed to just get tighter.
"There's no use in struggling. You'll only hurt yourself."
I tried really hard to relax myself, but I couldn't. "What did you do with Kom?!?"
"Oh, he's fine." he paused. "For now."
"What do you mean by 'for now'?" I trembled a little.
"He might accidently drop."
"Huh?"
"He might accidently drop in, let's say, a tub of lava."
"You're lying! How can you possibly have a tub of lava at your disposal?!?"
Horace pressed a few buttons on the side of his chair and my chair was raised. At the same time, a ray of light shone at a corner. There was Kom tied to a rope in midair, at least I think so, and a tub of lava underneath. He didn't move at all. My chair was slowly lowered back to the ground. Now I'm a believer.
"Let's say we be a little cooperative or I might accidentally press the button that'll drop him."
"No! I won't! I won't tell you what you want!"
He smiled, humored by my attempt. "You don't even know what I was going to ask! Do you think it's worth it?"
I bit my lip and remained silent.
"I just want an opinion of yours. I just want to know your opinion of which 'Earth' creature would be a better specimen to use. It's obvious from the 'Lifeforms Identifier' that 'Earth' has the dumbest creatures of all that I had seen."
"What's a 'Lifeforms Identifier'?" I had to control myself and try to stall for time.
His eyes seemed to glint at this question. "An ingenious device that my fellow henchmens managed to swipe from Bill's Lighthouse. It was so easy that I was quite surprised!"
"What does it do?" I sorta put two and two together so I pretty much knew what it did, but I had to buy some time.
"Oh, right. You don't know yet." He sneered and his lips slightly curled. "You should know. Didn't you find out from that wonderful journal of one of my fellow workers? He was exterminated. He disobeyed the rules and wrote a journal. He thought he would be able to imitate my work. The journal was burned in the process also."
"What do you mean exterminated?"
"As in dropped in the tub of lava. It was quite a sight."
It was really hard to control my anger towards this heartless man. Yet, the man who wrote the journal was just as bad.
"But what's a 'Lifeforms Identifier'?" Oh, where are you, Alakazam?
"Oh, right. I still haven't told you yet, have I? Well, it's not important to you. It just shows us the lifeforms for every planet on this galaxy and beyond. Of course, it didn't show any of the ones without any life on it or it would have taken us decades just to find a single planet that had any life on it! That Bill is quite the genius."
What else to ask, what else to ask?!? "Umm, how did you control Mewtwo?"
"Why does it concern you?" He must have been getting suspicious.
"Because I'm surprised you managed to even catch it! I mean, isn't there only one because it was a mistake made by scientists who were trying to clone Mew?"
He raised his eyebrow. "How could you possibly know this?!? You are from the other planet, aren't you??" He seemed to have his doubts about me. "How could you possibly know so much about both worlds???"
Oops. "Umm, so how did you catch Mewtwo?"
He grabbed my chin and yanked hard. "Are you or are you not from 'Earth'?!?"
"I am!"
"Then how do you know so much?!?"
I squirmed. "I don't know! Some guy invented a game about Pokemon and it became the new craze! I'm just a little kid who's a video game freak!!!" He let go of my chin.
"Who could possibly know about us on that world?" He whispered to himself.
"So how did you manage to catch Mewtwo?"
He broke his concentration and looked back at me. He smiled. "He does look like Mewtwo. Doesn't he?"
"Huh?"
"He's not the real thing. One of my officers managed to dig up the files of the experiment on Mewtwo. We tried to imitate it. And it worked!" His eyes twinkled. "It had the same anger as the first Mewtwo, but we prepared. We injected it with our dosage. We wanted to be sure we managed to get him so we gave him 24 times the dosage!"
"Won't that kill him?!?" I cried.
"But it didn't. As you know, this was only temporary. We immediately transported him to our 'Gene Chamber.' We switched a few of his genes with one your 'Earth' creatures."
"Which one?"
"How am I to know? It looked very much like a Growlithe. It had golden fur and blue eyes. Not nearly as light as the present Mewtwo's eyes."
"But how's the dog?"
"Is that what you call it? He's fine we didn't put anything in him. We just took out his genes."
"How did you create all this? What about that Planet Blender thing?"
"Decades of study. I'm surprised we even managed to get this far! What really got us on was the invention of the 'Mind Dosage.' We used it on Professor Birch and things really got started. He might be a bit lazy, but if he has no will of just sit around and do nothing, his mind is capable of much! I did not invent anyone of this, mind you, I had little part. They were mostly done by my officers."
Oh, I had run out of things to ask! How do I buy time?!? "Umm..."
"Enough! You are obviously stalling for time! I know not why, but I have all the time I need. For your ignorance, I will give you a present."
He pressed a button and my chair was once more raised. I saw Kom over the tub of lava and he still wasn't moving. Horace pressed a button and I saw the rope holding Kom drop. There was sickening splash and the lava cackled as it engulfed Kom.
===End of Chapter 10===