Story Notes:
Oh and thank you for 10000 views. Wish I could do something special...Oh wait, I did. New goal: 20000(on top 10s!)(Man the competition is fierce.)I'm a writer. I tried writing on fur affinity, but the server there has crashed and no one has seriously commented on my stories. I'm hoping for some comments on this new story which I am releasing here first. Axe that, only here. Especially since I'm so close to getting on the top ten for most words(about 20000 more) and potentially most reads(more then 5000 now) I'll put the general disclaimer here. All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners, Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures inc, and Pokemon. The original characters and plot are the property of me. I am in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of Pokemon. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are offended by anything in this story, then you have a serious problem being offended by something no one force you to read but I don't care enough so don't complain to me if you end up offended.
Chapter 18 The Egg Hatches
"Ah, this is the life, a bunch of friends going around, exploring and whatever they feel like." Bob stated.
"I wouldn't know." Mech said shortly glancing briefly at San who avoided his gaze.
"Man you two have been sulking ever since last night, what happened?" Hitokage asked.
"Nothing happened." San snapped.
"Yeah, nothing." Mech said with a sigh.
"Come on Pastoria City is still far away." Bob called from his spot at the head of the gang. The group had left Veilstone heading south. San had refused to talk with Mech unless necessary much to the confusion of everyone else including Mech. Bob had let his pokémon out after Mech convinced him to but Naetoru couldn't being a Grotle and too slow to keep up and Kan and she was a slug. He had ended up carrying his Riolu. Everyone was talking except San who ignored everyone else and Riolu who still shy. The sea visible on the horizon but the sun was sinking lower in the sky.
"Maybe we should camp here for the night?" Mech suggested.
"Yeah, it is getting dark." Bob agreed. They found a spot that had clearly been used before and stopped there.
"I'll grab some firewood." Erureido said walking off.
"I think I hear a noise from the egg!" Hitokage announced sitting down.
"Really? That's great!" Guma cheered bounding over.
"Huh?" Bob asked.
"The egg is close to hatching!" Guma said in English apparently as Bob looked more surprised then confused.
"Wait, you can speak English? And this whole time you've been speaking in pokémon!"
"My English isn't that good." Guma explained while trying to listen to the egg too.
"But how?"
"Well remember how his mom was captured by Team Rocket?" Mech started
"Not really, I wasn't in that conversation."
"Right well she was and they did some experiments on her. We think Guma's fur and English are a result of this." Mech explained. Subomi was already asleep.
"Well it's great you decided to finally fill me in. Now then, I should be feeding my pokémon." Bob said pulling a large container out of his satchel along with a five bowls. "Dinner time Naetoru, Kan." He said releasing him. He poured the food out and the pokémon began eating. Before long Shio stopped and walked over to Mech.
"I know you can understand us so could you please tell him this food stinks?" Shio asked.
"Will do. Hey Bob, your food stinks, don't you have anything better?" Mech relayed.
"Not really. I've been surviving off canned food and that's in short supply."
"Well it still stinks." Kan added without looking up.
"Look, I'm sorry but there just isn't enough room in my pack between my food, this stuff and Riolu's formula there isn't much room." Bob tried to explain. "There's nothing I can do until we get to the next town. So Mech, you never did explain where you and you're Gallade got those swords." He said changing the subject to prevent rebuttal.
"Well Erureido got his at the department store in Veilstone." Mech explained emphasizing his name "I got mine off a thug who tried to pick a fight with us."
"Cool. And no offence but those pink contacts are a bit disturbing especially since you don't where glasses." Bob said squinting in the waning light.
"Huh? I'm not wearing contacts."
"Then why are both your eyes pink, and glowing?" Bob asked. Frightened, Mech quickly dug through his pack and pulled out an old almost forgotten mirror. True enough his eyes, not just the iris were pink and glowing.
"Shit! I forgot to burn off some energy recently with all that's gone on!" He thought. He was defiantly feeling it now, the energy felt ready to explode. "Cover for me!" He shouted as he ran off into the woods to find a suitable spot. Finally he got what he judged to be a good enough distance, gathered all the excess energy and fired off a beam of it into the sky. After it faded he sat down to rub his forehead in an attempt to alleviate the headache left by all the power draining away so quickly.
"Hello?" Came a telepathic voice. He looked up and saw a Grumpig a short distance off looking at him.
"Yes?" he said.
"I couldn't help but notice all that energy you just fired off." It said telepathically "Doing that is such a waste."
"Well I have to. I'm not accustomed to that much and it may kill me having that much at once." Mech explained.
"Still, you could put it to better use."
"What would you suggest then?"
"Well we Grumpig and Spoink use these orbs to store that energy for later when we need it. You humans think we use it to boost our power but fail to realize what's really going on." It explained pointing to an orb on its forehead.
"So how does that help me?"
"Well from what I hear there's an herb shop in town called Celestic by you humans that sells them there."
"Doesn't that mean they stole them from you?"
"No, we give the orbs to them and in exchange they supply us with medicine."
"I guess I'll have to go there. Thanks for the information." Mech said.
"No big."
"Why did you decide to talk to me? I am a trainer and I could have caught you."
"No you can't, you don't have a pokéball. Besides I was amazed at how much psychic energy you burned off in one go. Not many pokémon have that much to just waste. Well good bye then." The Grumpig said walking off.
"Thanks again."
"Hey, what's going on?" Erureido asked walking into camp carrying the fire wood. He nearly dropped it when he saw what was going on. The two teams were on opposite sides menacing each other.
"Mech nearly overloaded and he noticed. Mech told us to cover but we couldn't come up with anything so we tried to at least hold Bob here but when we did well you can see." Subomi explained without turning his head.
"Alright knock it off!" Erureido said telepathically. "You over here." He ordered pointing at Bob.
"You going to explain what's going on?" Bob asked walking over.
"Something like that." Erureido said placing a palm on Bob's forehead.
"What are you do..." Bob said passing out mid sentence.
"What did you do to him?" Naetoru growled looming over Erureido.
"Calm down. I simply suppressed the memory. He won't remember what happened but otherwise he'll be fine. And since you can't tell him what happened he won't find out." Erureido explained.
"What did happen?" Mukkuru asked perching on Naetoru's back.
"I think you'd have learned from your trainer. Questions mean memories get erased and I might erase the wrong ones if you catch my drift." Erureido threatened.
"I'd like to see you try!" Shio snarled.
"We outnumber you, so don't bother." Hitokage smirked, the egg safely out of harms way.
"It's five on five idiot! And you have a broken arm!" Kan corrected.
"I doubt Riolu is able to fight. Now we're going to forget what happened and move on. If Mech decides to fill him in that's his choice." San said.
"I'm a fire type! I breathe fire, no arms required!" Hitokage added
"Fine, we'll stand down." Naetoru said defeated.
"Hey, did I miss anything?" Mech asked walking back into the camp.
"Not much." Subomi answered.
"What about Bob, he seems to have been knocked out."
"Oh, I just suppressed the memory so he won't remember what happened." Erureido explained. "I also knocked him out so if anything is left he'll figure it's just a dream."
"Well that'll work. I really should watch that more closely though." Mech commented on the near disaster.
"Yeah, work on that will you." Guma joked. The group finished eating after Hitokage got a fire going. Afterwards they fell uneasily to sleep.
"Hey Mech wake up!" someone said waking Mech up. Rubbing his eyes he got up to see what was up.
"What's going on?"
"The egg is hatching!" San informed him. Mech was excited now and walked over. The egg was sitting on the ground in front of Hitokage who was looking intently at it. The egg gave shudders every so often, a good size crack on one side. As it shook, the crack grew until a small section gave way. By this time even Bob's pokémon were watching even Riolu but Bob was still out.
"He could sleep through an air raid on his house. Scratch that, in his house." Mech thought to himself. All eyes were on the hole. Suddenly another piece fell away revealing a small blunt blue horn. Slowly it broke its way out and fell out onto the ground.
"Lap?" It said looking around.
"Well it's certainly not a fire type." Subomi commented. "Now what are you going to do?" He asked Hitokage.
"What do you mean? Just because it's not a fire type doesn't mean I'm not going to take care of it." Hitokage retorted picking up the baby Lapras in his good arm and sticking his tongue out at Subomi. "You really think I'm that shallow?"
"I think it'll make a great addition to the team." Mech agreed.
"It's so small!" Riolu said trying to look at the newborn. Everyone seemed to jump at this but let it pass, everyone except Mech who hadn't jumped.
"Lap?" it repeated. Mech found it strange he couldn't understand it or maybe it was simply saying Lap.
"Ow!" Hitokage cried shaking his hand. The Lapras had bit the finger he was rubbing its chin with. "Hungry then?" he said pulling out a bottle. After a while sleep got the best of the others and they went back to sleep except Mech.
"You know there's a problem with it being aquatic. It can't exactly walk along with us." Mech said bluntly.
"I know. I have an idea though. Remember how you carried San around? Can I do something like that?" Hitokage asked, the Lapras happily eating.
"Well she was automatically registered to my sixth pokéball. Here I have an idea." Mech said pulling it out as well as a water bottle. "I'll just open it up and pour in some water." He explained as he did so. "Now you can carry it around in here, and it'll be happy with the water to swim in." He said handing the ball over to Hitokage along with the magnetic clip. Hitokage put the clip on his satchel and affixed the ball to it.
"I'm just glad she has gills and lungs or this might be a bigger problem." He said patting the baby's head.
"Morning San." Mech called telepathically
"Morning." She replied verbally. "Hey, you're using telepathy!" she growled mentally.
"I didn't want to wake anyone else up."
"Oh so you thought you'd just go reading my mind to do whatever just because you can?" she accused.
"San I haven't read your mind. I'm just communicating telepathically. I wouldn't ever do that without a good reason and your permission."
"Fine. Why did you get me up anyway?"
"I thought we could talk."
"...."
"You know what I mean."
"We have nothing to talk about."
"Oh yes we do! We used to be great friends and now you won't even look at me if you can help it. What's wrong?"
"You don't understand."
"Then help me understand."
"Look. Humans and pokémon can be good friends, but nothing more."
"So you turn from good friend to bitter acquaintance. And I might as well be called half pokémon with all that's happened."
"You look, talk and act human, that equals human."
"That doesn't mean we can't be friends, you said it yourself!"
"Because we were getting too close."
"What's so wrong with that?"
"Didn't you hear me? Friends and nothing more."
"We were heading for more then friends weren't we?"
"Yes we were."
"And that's supposed to be bad?"
"Well yes! To human's its illegal and pokémon tend to shun for life all those involved!"
"So we like each other a whole huggy muggy much. Is that really wrong?" (yes I watch zero punctuation)
"It is!"
"If you say so, but answer me this: do you say it's wrong because that's what people tell you to believe, or that's what you truly believe."
".......I'm not sure."
"I wouldn't know." Mech said shortly glancing briefly at San who avoided his gaze.
"Man you two have been sulking ever since last night, what happened?" Hitokage asked.
"Nothing happened." San snapped.
"Yeah, nothing." Mech said with a sigh.
"Come on Pastoria City is still far away." Bob called from his spot at the head of the gang. The group had left Veilstone heading south. San had refused to talk with Mech unless necessary much to the confusion of everyone else including Mech. Bob had let his pokémon out after Mech convinced him to but Naetoru couldn't being a Grotle and too slow to keep up and Kan and she was a slug. He had ended up carrying his Riolu. Everyone was talking except San who ignored everyone else and Riolu who still shy. The sea visible on the horizon but the sun was sinking lower in the sky.
"Maybe we should camp here for the night?" Mech suggested.
"Yeah, it is getting dark." Bob agreed. They found a spot that had clearly been used before and stopped there.
"I'll grab some firewood." Erureido said walking off.
"I think I hear a noise from the egg!" Hitokage announced sitting down.
"Really? That's great!" Guma cheered bounding over.
"Huh?" Bob asked.
"The egg is close to hatching!" Guma said in English apparently as Bob looked more surprised then confused.
"Wait, you can speak English? And this whole time you've been speaking in pokémon!"
"My English isn't that good." Guma explained while trying to listen to the egg too.
"But how?"
"Well remember how his mom was captured by Team Rocket?" Mech started
"Not really, I wasn't in that conversation."
"Right well she was and they did some experiments on her. We think Guma's fur and English are a result of this." Mech explained. Subomi was already asleep.
"Well it's great you decided to finally fill me in. Now then, I should be feeding my pokémon." Bob said pulling a large container out of his satchel along with a five bowls. "Dinner time Naetoru, Kan." He said releasing him. He poured the food out and the pokémon began eating. Before long Shio stopped and walked over to Mech.
"I know you can understand us so could you please tell him this food stinks?" Shio asked.
"Will do. Hey Bob, your food stinks, don't you have anything better?" Mech relayed.
"Not really. I've been surviving off canned food and that's in short supply."
"Well it still stinks." Kan added without looking up.
"Look, I'm sorry but there just isn't enough room in my pack between my food, this stuff and Riolu's formula there isn't much room." Bob tried to explain. "There's nothing I can do until we get to the next town. So Mech, you never did explain where you and you're Gallade got those swords." He said changing the subject to prevent rebuttal.
"Well Erureido got his at the department store in Veilstone." Mech explained emphasizing his name "I got mine off a thug who tried to pick a fight with us."
"Cool. And no offence but those pink contacts are a bit disturbing especially since you don't where glasses." Bob said squinting in the waning light.
"Huh? I'm not wearing contacts."
"Then why are both your eyes pink, and glowing?" Bob asked. Frightened, Mech quickly dug through his pack and pulled out an old almost forgotten mirror. True enough his eyes, not just the iris were pink and glowing.
"Shit! I forgot to burn off some energy recently with all that's gone on!" He thought. He was defiantly feeling it now, the energy felt ready to explode. "Cover for me!" He shouted as he ran off into the woods to find a suitable spot. Finally he got what he judged to be a good enough distance, gathered all the excess energy and fired off a beam of it into the sky. After it faded he sat down to rub his forehead in an attempt to alleviate the headache left by all the power draining away so quickly.
"Hello?" Came a telepathic voice. He looked up and saw a Grumpig a short distance off looking at him.
"Yes?" he said.
"I couldn't help but notice all that energy you just fired off." It said telepathically "Doing that is such a waste."
"Well I have to. I'm not accustomed to that much and it may kill me having that much at once." Mech explained.
"Still, you could put it to better use."
"What would you suggest then?"
"Well we Grumpig and Spoink use these orbs to store that energy for later when we need it. You humans think we use it to boost our power but fail to realize what's really going on." It explained pointing to an orb on its forehead.
"So how does that help me?"
"Well from what I hear there's an herb shop in town called Celestic by you humans that sells them there."
"Doesn't that mean they stole them from you?"
"No, we give the orbs to them and in exchange they supply us with medicine."
"I guess I'll have to go there. Thanks for the information." Mech said.
"No big."
"Why did you decide to talk to me? I am a trainer and I could have caught you."
"No you can't, you don't have a pokéball. Besides I was amazed at how much psychic energy you burned off in one go. Not many pokémon have that much to just waste. Well good bye then." The Grumpig said walking off.
"Thanks again."
"Hey, what's going on?" Erureido asked walking into camp carrying the fire wood. He nearly dropped it when he saw what was going on. The two teams were on opposite sides menacing each other.
"Mech nearly overloaded and he noticed. Mech told us to cover but we couldn't come up with anything so we tried to at least hold Bob here but when we did well you can see." Subomi explained without turning his head.
"Alright knock it off!" Erureido said telepathically. "You over here." He ordered pointing at Bob.
"You going to explain what's going on?" Bob asked walking over.
"Something like that." Erureido said placing a palm on Bob's forehead.
"What are you do..." Bob said passing out mid sentence.
"What did you do to him?" Naetoru growled looming over Erureido.
"Calm down. I simply suppressed the memory. He won't remember what happened but otherwise he'll be fine. And since you can't tell him what happened he won't find out." Erureido explained.
"What did happen?" Mukkuru asked perching on Naetoru's back.
"I think you'd have learned from your trainer. Questions mean memories get erased and I might erase the wrong ones if you catch my drift." Erureido threatened.
"I'd like to see you try!" Shio snarled.
"We outnumber you, so don't bother." Hitokage smirked, the egg safely out of harms way.
"It's five on five idiot! And you have a broken arm!" Kan corrected.
"I doubt Riolu is able to fight. Now we're going to forget what happened and move on. If Mech decides to fill him in that's his choice." San said.
"I'm a fire type! I breathe fire, no arms required!" Hitokage added
"Fine, we'll stand down." Naetoru said defeated.
"Hey, did I miss anything?" Mech asked walking back into the camp.
"Not much." Subomi answered.
"What about Bob, he seems to have been knocked out."
"Oh, I just suppressed the memory so he won't remember what happened." Erureido explained. "I also knocked him out so if anything is left he'll figure it's just a dream."
"Well that'll work. I really should watch that more closely though." Mech commented on the near disaster.
"Yeah, work on that will you." Guma joked. The group finished eating after Hitokage got a fire going. Afterwards they fell uneasily to sleep.
"Hey Mech wake up!" someone said waking Mech up. Rubbing his eyes he got up to see what was up.
"What's going on?"
"The egg is hatching!" San informed him. Mech was excited now and walked over. The egg was sitting on the ground in front of Hitokage who was looking intently at it. The egg gave shudders every so often, a good size crack on one side. As it shook, the crack grew until a small section gave way. By this time even Bob's pokémon were watching even Riolu but Bob was still out.
"He could sleep through an air raid on his house. Scratch that, in his house." Mech thought to himself. All eyes were on the hole. Suddenly another piece fell away revealing a small blunt blue horn. Slowly it broke its way out and fell out onto the ground.
"Lap?" It said looking around.
"Well it's certainly not a fire type." Subomi commented. "Now what are you going to do?" He asked Hitokage.
"What do you mean? Just because it's not a fire type doesn't mean I'm not going to take care of it." Hitokage retorted picking up the baby Lapras in his good arm and sticking his tongue out at Subomi. "You really think I'm that shallow?"
"I think it'll make a great addition to the team." Mech agreed.
"It's so small!" Riolu said trying to look at the newborn. Everyone seemed to jump at this but let it pass, everyone except Mech who hadn't jumped.
"Lap?" it repeated. Mech found it strange he couldn't understand it or maybe it was simply saying Lap.
"Ow!" Hitokage cried shaking his hand. The Lapras had bit the finger he was rubbing its chin with. "Hungry then?" he said pulling out a bottle. After a while sleep got the best of the others and they went back to sleep except Mech.
"You know there's a problem with it being aquatic. It can't exactly walk along with us." Mech said bluntly.
"I know. I have an idea though. Remember how you carried San around? Can I do something like that?" Hitokage asked, the Lapras happily eating.
"Well she was automatically registered to my sixth pokéball. Here I have an idea." Mech said pulling it out as well as a water bottle. "I'll just open it up and pour in some water." He explained as he did so. "Now you can carry it around in here, and it'll be happy with the water to swim in." He said handing the ball over to Hitokage along with the magnetic clip. Hitokage put the clip on his satchel and affixed the ball to it.
"I'm just glad she has gills and lungs or this might be a bigger problem." He said patting the baby's head.
"Morning San." Mech called telepathically
"Morning." She replied verbally. "Hey, you're using telepathy!" she growled mentally.
"I didn't want to wake anyone else up."
"Oh so you thought you'd just go reading my mind to do whatever just because you can?" she accused.
"San I haven't read your mind. I'm just communicating telepathically. I wouldn't ever do that without a good reason and your permission."
"Fine. Why did you get me up anyway?"
"I thought we could talk."
"...."
"You know what I mean."
"We have nothing to talk about."
"Oh yes we do! We used to be great friends and now you won't even look at me if you can help it. What's wrong?"
"You don't understand."
"Then help me understand."
"Look. Humans and pokémon can be good friends, but nothing more."
"So you turn from good friend to bitter acquaintance. And I might as well be called half pokémon with all that's happened."
"You look, talk and act human, that equals human."
"That doesn't mean we can't be friends, you said it yourself!"
"Because we were getting too close."
"What's so wrong with that?"
"Didn't you hear me? Friends and nothing more."
"We were heading for more then friends weren't we?"
"Yes we were."
"And that's supposed to be bad?"
"Well yes! To human's its illegal and pokémon tend to shun for life all those involved!"
"So we like each other a whole huggy muggy much. Is that really wrong?" (yes I watch zero punctuation)
"It is!"
"If you say so, but answer me this: do you say it's wrong because that's what people tell you to believe, or that's what you truly believe."
".......I'm not sure."