Pokémar Episode V, A Clone's Destiny

Incursion

Thunder is thankfully quick to heed my words, putting his back to the wall and keeping out of the doorway.

"What is it Alex? What's wrong?"

"One of them has a gun." I reply. "How they got one, I could only guess."

"A what?" Ah... right, this Thunder never heard me talk about the human world.

"A gun. Human weapon. Imagine bullet seed, but the seed is made of lead and going about five times the speed of sound."

"Arceus..." Thunder goes slightly pale at the thought.

"Yeah. Unless you're a steel type it'll punch a hole straight through you. So we need to be extremely careful here." I go quiet and peek out to observe the kidnappers. Perhaps I can learn a bit about why they're here.

"What was that?!" I hear the Mew cry in panic. "What did you do to him?!" She gestures to the deceased Mew beside her. Gunshot wound. Straight through the head. At least it was quick...
The aggressors say nothing. The Charizard, apparently the leader, gestures forward with a hand motion that I can't immediately recognize. In response, the Electabuzz, weapon still trained on the Mew, pulls something off his belt. A spherical device, simple in design. A grey button sits at the front in a depression that runs the length of its equator. The top half is red, the bottom half white.

He pushes the button, causing the sphere to open up and fire a beam of blue energy at the Mew. The bright, blue light engulfs her as she screams in fear. I watch as her body compresses into a glowing sphere of white that is immediately sucked into the sphere. With a click, the device snaps shut. No trace of the Mew is left behind.

"What was that?!" Thunder mutters, looking to me for answers.

"You're guess is as good as mine. We don't have anything anywhere close to that on earth."

"Is she alive?"

"Best case scenario that thing is somehow storing her. If that's the case we need to get a hold of it."

The three pokemon exchange quick nods before turning to leave. This is our best chance. But we need to strike fast. If they get the chance to shoot us, it's over.

"Right. Let's go." I say, gesturing for him to take out the one with the gun with thunder wave. Thunder hesitates for a second before steeling himself up and creeping out from his spot. I follow close behind, ready to lend assistance as needed. The trio head deeper into the dojo as we tail them, approaching a weird, shimmering plate-like shape about as large as a pickup truck. It looks almost embedded into the air around it. On its surface I can see the interior of another building. One made with concrete and metal. Is that some kind of portal? Humans coming through and taking pokemon to use for their own ends? Whatever it is, it stops now. 

"Three, two, one, go!" I say to Thunder, expecting a shockwave of electric energy to hit the Electabuzz. But it doesn't happen. Instead he decides to go with a quick attack. "Thunder, what the-" Did he not understand?

The attack alerted the the three of them almost instantly. The Electabuzz is fast to bring the weapon to bear.

"Move!" I yell, watching as a shot narrowly misses him. I latch onto his hands with my vines in a bid to keep him from using the weapon. I pull at them, messing with his aim and keeping him from getting a clean shot off on Thunder. Frustrated, he turns the gun on me. I barely get a chance to react before I feel something cut straight through my lower gut. Intense, searing pain consumes my body. I scream out involuntarily and clutch the wound, not daring to look.

"Alex! No!" Thunder screams in horror. The Electabuzz turns to face my friend and raises the weapon. But the Charizard grunts at him and puts his hand on the gun, lowering it down. He pulls out another one of those sphere devices and points it at Thunder.

"No... Please... Don't..." I moan helplessly. But they refuse to acknowledge me. All I can do is watch as Thunder disappears before my eyes. "T-thunder..." I mutter plaintively.

They turn to me and pull out another one. With no other choice I simply close my eyes and wait. The sensation is like pins and needles spreading across my body. All sensation begins to fade until only my thoughts remain Soon a feeling of entrapment takes hold. It feels like a cage. Like bare metal in all directions. And I can't get out. I'm too weak to even come close.

I can still sense the outside world. The three aggressors appear to be satisfied and turn to head back through the shimmering portal. As I cross the threshold, Immense pain takes over. I feel like I'm convulsing, warping. Changing shape and form. My little prison cell grows smaller and smaller, I feel compressed. Under impossible pressure. It gets worse and worse, tighter and tighter until... There's a release. My cage bursts. And I feel myself coalesce back into being. But the strain of it all is too much. I feel my consciousness waiver before slipping under.

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I come to some time afterwards, lying down on a bed. As I shake the cobwebs loose I take time to assess my surroundings. It looks like a sparsely decorated bedroom with just a bed, a footlocker, and bedside table. Off to one side it a person. A human. A women I don't recognize. I look down and see my body, my human body, wearing a pair of light grey shorts and bloodied bandages around my abdomen.

"Ah, you're awake. We were starting to worry." She says in a soft voice.

"Ohhhhhh..." I moan. "What happened... Where am I?"

"At a hospital, recovering. I wanted to apologize for my cohorts and their... lack of restraint. We didn't mean for anyone to get hurt."

"Uh huh... Yeah. Sure. Let's go with that. What do you want?"

"I need to ask a few questions. About what you were doing in that world. It's in the interest of bettering our understanding of this pokemon filled world." This just screams suspicious. Something here is seriously wrong. I'd better not have to save the world a third time...