章節 253: Strange Change
{With AshTwo}
Ash was back in the town where Akihabara lived in; he sat at the table reading through research papers Akihabara had lying around while Akihabara was getting ready putting on a suit.
"You know you could have called ahead of time, you caught me just as I was getting ready to go on a date with Joy," Akihabara said as his robot fixed his tie.
"Oh, you and Joy are officially going steady, congrats," Ash said as Meowth was napping on his lap, "But in my defense, you never pick up my calls."
"Hey, maybe you have a point, but after everything that's happened, I hate to say it, but I trust you now," Akihabara said begrudgingly.
Ash chuckled. "Aww, are you admitting I'm your best friend, Aki~,"
Akihabara sighed, "Don't push it, but I'll say we are friends, afterall I got you, Porygon, and you helped me out with the Aster situation,"
"Don't forget I gave you a lot of money, like a lot lot," Ash added
"Right, well, that too, but still, thanks, it's a shame our operation is over now that our deal is done,"
Ash chuckled and walked up to him, "Yeah, shame, but you still got a lot, and now that you have the Porygon plans, you'll get it back and more soon enough, besides you still got one more," Ash said as he gave him a card.
"Thanks, and yeah, probably, but I hate to admit it, but this has been a fun experience," Akihabara said as he finished getting ready and took the card, "Also, do you want the upgrade we talked about?"
"Yeah, sure, why not," Ash said as Meowth jumped up on his shoulders, "What is it anyway?"
Akihabara went to his computer and pulled up a model it was Porygon, but not one Ash was familiar with, "This is the upgrade for Porygon those eggheads over in Sinnoh have been working on, they call it Porygon3,"
"But it is purely in theory. They haven't used their own Porygon to test it, so there's no way to know if it would work, so do you want to try it?"
Ash took a moment to think, but after a moment, he opened his eyes and nodded, "Alright, let's do it, Aki,"
Akihabara pressed a few buttons on his computer, and then, after a moment, a purple disk came fresh off the press, and he held it out.
Ash let out Porygon2 as Akihabara inserted the disk in the place where its mouth was after some processing, the Windows XP loading sound played for a bit, and then Porygon2 started glowing.
Porygon2 started changing as it began to grow and stretch, but then, about halfway through the windows, an XP crash sound played as the glowing started shifting the body back, leaving it only halfway.
As the glowing disappeared, there was not Porygon2 or this so-called Porygon3, now floating in front of them was Porygon-Z.
Akihabara blinked in surprise as he looked over at Porygon-Z, "This is...I don't even know what to say…"
Ash was also slightly confused but less than Akihabara, "What happened? It looks like it crashed, or maybe there was a virus on it,"
"That's not a bad theory," Akihabara said thoughtfully, "This was never tested, so there's no telling this version of Porygon it looks like... a glitch… May I?"
Ash nodded as Porygon-Z jumped into Akihabara's computer and he pulled up its code to look it over, "It's strange; it looks like Porygon is fine, but something happened,"
Ash leaned over Akihabara, looking at the computer, "What do you mean, will Porygon still be able to hack into Team Rocket's computers?"
Akihabara put his hand on his chin, "It looks like everything is fine. It should still be able to do that, and it seems like it is stronger, but it's strange I don't know how to describe it, whatever this is, this is not what Porygon3 was meant to be."
"Hmm, well, do you think there would be a way to find out what happened, I'm not a scientist, but from what I can see, it looks like that up-grade your grave, Porygon might have been corrupted in some way."
"That is a good theory," Akihabara said as he started typing things into his computer, then he put a USB into it, taking a fragment of Porygon-Z, "I'll take this. I'll get in contact with the researchers and see if we can find out what went wrong,"
Ash rubbed his chin; this was always one thing he was always curious about what happened with the original Porygon3, what did it glitch into Z, "Ok, then I'll take Porygon and keep doing what I'm doing, I'll contact you if I see anything strange or if it is unable to even function anymore."
Akihabara nodded, "That's good. I'll try to find an anti-virus to potentially see if we can fix Porygon-. Well, I guess we can't call it 3,"
Ash smiled under his scarf, "Then how about Z, Porygon-Z,"
"Hmm…I like it, alright then, let's see if we can find the secrets of Porygon-Z!" Akihabara said excitedly as suddenly he heard a knock at his door, and he froze.
He could hear one of his robots approaching the door as he started frantically fixing himself again, "ShootShootShootShoot, well, research can wait, I have my date!"
Ash shook his head and helped Akihabara fix his tie, "Alright then, I'm off. I got deployed to Johto, but don't worry, I can always get back,"
Akihabara nodded as he looked at himself in the mirror, "I guess our cooperation isn't over, huh D."
"Nah, it isn't Aki, now go get her tiger," Ash said, patting Akihabara on the back as he walked towards the back.
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{In Kalos}
Calem was a young boy; he liked Pokemon a lot, he especially loved his Kanga and Li'l Kanga, the Kangaskhan mother-and-son duo. Although he was too young to get his League license, he did have a trainer license, which are two separate things.
Thanks to that, he entered the Kalos Junior Tournament, and despite having no formal training, he won, he beat people who were considered prodigies even if he was literally a no one, he had no connections to the professor, and his parents were almost always out on business trips.
Call it luck, natural talent, or whatever, but he did it, and that made Calem excited, little did he know that was the worst mistake in his life.
Since he had no connections to special people or parents around to advise him, adults saw their opportunity to exploit him in his innocence the press constantly followed him for interviews, the paparazzi took pictures of him everywhere he went, and recruitment agencies followed him every day.
At first, Calem thought nothing of it and let them do what they did, posing and doing interviews, but that made things worse and attracted more, Adults started swarming him, using his status to exploit him to make money,
It got bad every day he couldn't go out, and what's worse, his friends, Tierno, Trevor, and Shauna, were gone most of the time in another region, but during weekends and breaks a Alakazam would appear to drop them off and pick them up, it became a cycle.
Calem asked them about their experiences, and they told him all about it, but as they did, he only thought one thing, 'I wish I got to go…'
Then there was Serena; things were complicated; they were neighbors and friends along with everyone else, but a few years ago, something happened, it wasn't big enough to say they had a falling out; they were still friends, and Serena's mother Grace would regularly make him dinner since his parents were never around…but things were complicated…
Then, one day, another Adult had him go to Lumiose City for a gig, since he was a kid and he was tricked into signing a contract, he couldn't do anything thankfully, after this one, the contract would expire, and Calem knew better now, and he wouldn't sign anything else.
He powered through this last gig, after this, he was free and would go do his own thing. Maybe he would prepare for when he goes on his journey, or maybe he would do these jobs on his own terms, the thoughts excited him.
But as soon as he finished, he was free, which wasn't good because a lot of adults heard about it, now that he was done with that contract and wasn't planning on renewing his old one, so many people wanted to try and take advantage.
This led to Calem being chased by a mob of fans, press, and other agencies wanting to use him; he was running like his life depended on it because, in a way, it did, eventually, all that running led him to a building, he had no idea what it was he just saw there was no one inside so he ran in and immediately went to hide in the second floor.
As soon as he was there, he could hear the mob outside. He sat down in one of the dark corners and, curled into a ball, and was barely holding back tears.
"Why me…" was the only thing he could mumble over and over again as he waited, but he thought to himself that things would get better, he'd stay positive, and once he got home, he'd work on himself going outside every day.
As he got his new resolve suddenly he heard something, the sounds of an eerie whine, he was scared as he looked around, finding nothing at every side then when he finally looked back in front of him, there was a Haunter that had a scary face and laughed.
Calem's face turned pale; he wanted to scream, but the wind left his mouth a long time ago, he was paralyzed in fear as he could fear tears flowing from his eyes.
As he was paralyzed, the sound of a girl spoke up, "Stephen… stop that, your troublemaker…."
From the side, a girl with long, purple, messy hair and a black dress came up and grabbed the Haunter; Haunter scratched his cheek as the girl stared at him.
Then the girl looked at Calem, she had heard about him. She came here specifically to see him in hopes he was the one she was looking for, and at the moment, she was… disappointed, no, that's not the right word.
Calem, on the other hand, could not see the girl; the room was dark, and in combination with Haunter, he could only see a creepy silhouette staring down at him.
Then the girl frowned and looked down at him, ".. No, you're not the one. ... *SIgh*…"
She turned around and started walking away as she went into the shadows, in one moment, she was there, and the next, like she never existed, leaving Calem shivering on the floor.
Whatever semblance of a plan he had left to try and improve his situation was gone, he only thought of one thing, 'The world is Scary… I want to go home…'
–
Meanwhile, with the girl, she appeared in another area with her Haunter, sighing sadly, "Another fail Stephen…"
Haunter came up and bumped her shoulder, "Jei Jei,"
"Yeah, I know I have you…but you know I want something more…I want real friends..people who aren't scared of me…that we can have fun," the Hex Maniac said
"So this one was also a failure. Any other ideas?"
Haunter thought for a moment, then he smiled mischievously and started turning his own gas body into shapes as he explained, "Jei Jei, Jei Jei, Jei Jei!"
She heard everything and could understand him, but her face darkened hearing his suggestion, "What! Are you crazy, you stupid Ghost, how is that a good idea?"
"Jei Jei," Haunter said, trying to explain himself.
"No, I will not hear you out, that's insane, chaotic, the most stupid idea I've ever heard…I love it let's do it!"
—--
{Unknown location}
A hooded figure, the same one as before, was holding the same piece of parchment, now it was much more clear what those two figures were, the one shadowy figure that had no real details was Giratina, and the other that seemed to look like a black figure with white smoke that looked very similar to his own robes, was Darkrai.
He still smiled as he took off his hood, revealing his long blue hair, and smiled, he was Tobias, "It's almost time," he mumbled.
"Hey, Tobias!" a voice called out
When he looked, there was a girl with white hair; she wore a hoody that seemed even more inspired by Darkrai, "Sister Persephone,"
Persephone frowned, seeing Tobias here, "What are you doing here, the ritual is about to start, you are needed," she said coldly.
"Of course, I was just reminding myself what we are after," Tobias said as he followed Persephone.
After a short walk, they arrived in a large circular room with a sigil on the floor, Many of her people wearing similar robes as Tobias were lying on the ground, Tobias walked up and also laid down,
Persephone walked up to the altar, "It is time, all of you will be sent to the Dream realm! What is your goal!"
"To find the fragments of Darkrai!" all the people on the floor said
"Yes, we will obtain Darkrai for our goals. We may not be able to get the original for now, but if we get at least 1, we will succeed!" Persephone said as the others shouted.
"And if you can't find or acquire Darkrai, then don't bother coming out of the Dream Realm, or I will kill you myself!" she said coldly.
In unison, all the people yelled out, "Right!"
"Good, we will succeed, and do you know why!"
"Because we are the Cult of Darkrai!" they said in unison as the ritual began, and soon they all fell into a deep sleep.
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I have a test, wish me luck, maybe some stones?
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