Pokemorph: The Reign of Lord Regime

[Wolf in the Rain]

<Sparky?! Sparky?!> Marcus angrily thought his face growing a deep hue of red. His tail began to twitch as his temper rose <I'm not some God damn pet!>. Marcus was about to kill Taylor, but 'Twitch' cracked first.

"You people yell and you try to inflict harm on me," He said, inching forward in his chair, taking a look of extreme agitation. "Yell at me again for taking a mint, and believe I'm extremely nervous?" 'Twitch asked, adding a bit of venom to the last two words. "Pardon me, but I wasn't aware I'd boarded the nonsense train. I was just attacked by some kind of soldier/pokemorphic hybrid in the forest, and I'm a little worried that he'll come back and take a chunk out of my jugular. Pardon me for being a little jumpy." the boy then turned to Taylor, a look of slight irritation replacing the extreme agitation. "It's Kalseng. Kalseng Audor. Base your nicknames off of that." Kalseng then pulled back into his seat and grumbled quietly.

Marcus could help but let out a laugh at the boys reaction, Marcus was still slightly annoyed at the 'Sparky pet name', but Taylor is only kidding and winding them up. "Calm down, Twitch, it's just a name. Isn't that right, Tay, the supremely critical angry girl?"

 

[Mira]

"That's a mouthful if I ever heard one," Taylor laughed. "If you must have a nick-name for me, my friends used to call me Frizz. Do with that what you will. Oh, and Kalley, I don't think you'll have to worry about your jugular with all of us around. And if he does show up, you can teleport my mints somewhere very unfortunate."

Taylor unconsciously flicked opened her knife once more. She looked down at the blade in her hand and felt something cold rush over her. Taylor grimaced at the red film that now covered the edge. Her stomach flipped and she felt her face turn warm, though with what emotion she couldn't tell.

Taylor lowered her voice and spoke mainly to herself. "Do you know what it's like to not remember how many people you've killed?"

 

[Wolf in the Rain]

Marcus looked down at his feet. Talyor's question was a bit random and a mood-killer, but he could see she was hurting from it, like it she had been thinking about it for a long time. Marcus could feel his tail stop swaying as he answered.

"I... I remember every face and every battle. I know it could've been avoided, but I needed to get stronger." he paused for a moment, then resumed, a bit more louder and more cheerily "And unfortunately, that's life right now for, well... us."

 

[zZRaoto]

Tin stumbled to the roof of the train car as it picked up great speeds but he didn't get back up, he just sat there admiring the beauty flashing by.

Trees left a blur of green and brown while the various berries on the bushes gave it a mix of an array of colors. Then the Pokemon, Sparrow, which seemed to be about the only Pokemon left in that part of the region, gave it almost a still picture effect when they were flying the opposite direction of the train. It was as if someone painted a picture and left it on the face of the earth, which we were traveling across now.

Then over the roar of the train, Tin heard faint talking. He hesitantly got up, holding his arms out to catch his balance, then he started to walk towards the hole on top of the train.

At the hole there was a ladder in it leading down to the passenger area. Tin sat with his legs out facing the opposite direction and leaned his back into the hole so he can see what was inside.

Zero! She was standing sort of away from everyone who appeared as if they were arguing about...names. Tin continued to stay there to just listen to everyone, not wanting to join the argument. Then all of a sudden, a random statement by a girl with a knife, "Do you know what it's like to not remember how many people you've killed?" Caused everyone to draw back to silence. Tin stared blankly, not knowing what she was talking about, like always. Then the Morph boy looked down and said with sort of an insecure tone,I... I remember every face and every battle. I know it could've been avoided, but I needed to get stronger." he paused for a moment, then resumed, a bit more louder and more cheerily "And unfortunately, that's life right now for, well... us."

What? Wow, I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Tin thought with an array of thoughts on just what they might be talking about. Tin continued to look at the group, he felt as if he was the....inferior one as he didn't have the experience these people seemed to have, he also felt as if he was the youngest, which he probably was. He then pulled his stomach up to the top of the train with ease and sat there to continue admiring the beauty that flashed by them.

 

[Kalseng]

Kalseng grumbled and ran a hand through his hair, his slender fingers searching for what he hoped was there. He found exactly what he wanted, right where he had hoped it would be. He pulled the hand into a fist and brought it down towards eye level, focusing on his energy. His fist began to glow an odd little aura of different colors, and he suddenly snapped it open. Two leaves rushed out, one headed for the side of Sparky's face, the other for Taylor's. If they had any kind of skill, they would dodge, and be left with a cut. Anything other than that, and Kalseng was going to Ecureteak alone.

 

[Mira]

"I... I remember every face and every battle. I know it could've been avoided, but I needed to get stronger." he paused for a moment, then resumed, a bit more louder and more cheerily "And unfortunately, that's life right now for, well... us."

"I suppose so," Taylor sighed. "Or, at least that's the life we've been given."

Kalseng just kept muttering something to himself and he ran his fingers through his hair. Taylor's eyes narrowed, trying to understand what he was doing. He apparently found something interesting in his hair... Taylor didn't want to know. He closed his fist around it and his hand began glowing with different colored auras. Before Taylor could say anything, he snapped open his hand and two small leaves that looked quite a bit like tiny daggers flew out, one at Marcus and the other at herself. Taylor blinked in surprise and her mind automatically lashed out in defense, redirecting the leaf so that it flew into the metal ceiling with a surprisingly loud impact. She managed to push back her instinct to fight back and instead put away her dagger and stood up, staring down at her attacker, demanding an explanation.

 

[Snicker_Kicker]

"We're here," Earliat said to himself. He could clearly see the deserted ruins of the once glorious city of Ecruteak. However, in the distance to the east and west, the Brass and Tin Towers stood, respectively. Perched atop each tower, Earliat could see a large bird-like Pokemon.

<Lugia and Ho-Oh,> Zeke said in mindspeak as he landed. He morphed back into human form and stood next to Earliat. "Lugia resided in the Tin Tower whearas Ho-Oh resided in the Brass Tower. After the Brass Tower burnt down, Lugia fled to the Whirl Islands near Cinnabar and Ho-Oh moved into the Tin Tower," Zeke explained.

"Cool," Earliat said as Lugia and Ho-Oh flew off in the distance. Earliat felt a rumbling underneath his feet. He knelt down and could feel the shutter and shaking of a train.

"The train for Pewter is almost here," Zeke said as he knelt down next to the young prince. Essence and Kevin landed, followed by Michael.

"Yea. We should get ready for our...guests, " Zeke said as he readied his gun.

"Agreed," Earliat said as he slipped off the black gloves that covered his hands.


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"Are you ready?"

"Yes, but there is a problem..."

"What is it?"

"What if he fights back?"

"He won't. I want you to go and kill Zeke Callahan. I'm becoming very cautious about him. He's spending too much time with my son."

"Yes, your highness."

"Oh, and one more thing."

"Yes?"

"If Earliat attacks you...do not hesitate to kill him. I don't want any opposition in my way."

"Yes, your highness."

 

[zZRaoto]

Tin looked up, he could already see Ecruteak City in a distance. It was just a few miles away but at the speed the train was going, it would arrive in a few minutes.

Then something blocked out the sun, just for an instant. Huh? Tin looked up and seen two large bird things soaring through the sky. He watched in awe as a rainbow appeared over the bright sun and then it disappeared as the two Pokemon became less visible.

Sitting in a trance on top of the train, Tin didn't notice they were already at the Ecruteak Train Station and the jerk of the stop sent him flying off the train and landing on the ground on his back.

"Oow." Tin groaned as he struggled to get back up, but before he could some Pokemon attacked him. "Aah!" It slammed him into the train and then jumped back to join some armored things.

"Hey what's the deal!" Tin yelled enraged by the sudden attack. Then something grabbed him, a Sneasel. It had used Faint Attack to get close up on him. They threatened him to keep quiet.

"Say one word and we will kill you." The Sneasel said. Then one of the armored beings came up and whispered into Tin's ear "If you want to live then you must help us. You see, the people inside that train are evil beings, they are trying to destroy the world and we are trying to stop them." A pause... "When one of the people come out, you must attack immediately, got it!?" Tin nodded helplessly and hid next to the door, waiting for the others to come out. Well they did seem kind of fishy. Hmm. Perhaps...no. Not Zero, she can't be...maybe just the Raichu Morph guy is. No! Tin was conflicting with himself on if he should help these beings or not. When one of them noticed his uncertainty they threatened him once more, but this time with more persuasion in it. "You must help us, if you don't, then we will assume your one of them and be forced to destroy you. You in or not?"

Tin had no choice. "I'm in." He charged a little bit of electricity around him and thought to himself, Well if you guys are against the Pokemon world then your in for a shocking surprise. He then stopped for a second and thought to himself again, Wow that was lame. He felt kind of stupid for even doing something like this, he could've ran but...to protect the Pokemon world...it was his mission.

 

[Wolf in the Rain]

Marcus threw up his hands in front of his face, crossing his arms to block the dagger-like leaf. As it impacted his left arm, the leaf cut deep, leaving only the stem of it visible. Ignoring the pain, Marcus took his right arm and struck Kalsung's face with his fist.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Marcus yelled at the kid pulling the leaf out of his arm, blood started to trickle down his arm. "It's one thing to attack people that are trying to help you , but to attack someone that isn't looking?!" Orange fur began crawling up Marcus' arms and legs again as his tail began to twitch, "Coward! You better have a damn good reason for that!"

 

[Mira]

The leaf directed at Marcus hit him in the arm. He had been looking away at the time and hadn't even had time to move. He promptly stood up and slammed Kalsung across the face with his fist.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Marcus yelled, pulling the leaf out of his arm which immediately began to bleed. "It's one thing to attack people that are trying to help you , but to attack someone that isn't looking?!" Orange fur began crawling up Marcus' arms and legs again as his tail began to twitch as he lost control, "Coward! You better have a damn good reason for that!"

"Don't let your anger take over," Taylor said firmly, placing her hand on his uninjured arm and clenching her teeth as tiny streams of electricity flowed into her.

This coming from the girl who almost took the nose off the same guy for teleporting a mint, Taylor thought bitterly.

"If you let yourself get that way, there's no telling what you'll do once you're there," Taylor bit her lip. "Trust me, I'd know."

 

[Gewitterdrache27]

As Jack peered through the rock at Kindle, his first idea was to tell her to go away and leave him alone. However, she appeared to have pure benevolence behind her face. Jack didn't know what to do at this point, and realized that since she hasn't gone off to tell someone about this, she probably is like him. Jack expanded his hole and told Kindle;

"Hello Kindle. I'm Jack. What is it you would like, might I ask?" He asked her, getting straight to the point. Formalities are alien to him.

 

[Kalseng]

Kalseng received a randomly placed fist to his face, and a small amount of blood splattered on his closed eyelids. It wasn't that the punch hurt, in fact, Kalseng had barely felt the impact. He hadn't tried to hold his head still, so his entire body went with the punch, reducing the impact as a whole. What hurt was that a bit of the salty blood got in his eye. Which was disgusting. Kalseng wiped what amount of the blood he could off of his face, and turned to the two companions he was traveling with.

"You," he said, turning to Taylor, "I'm traveling with. You have great instincts, and caught what I was doing immediately." Kalseng smiled and then turned to Sparky. "You," he spat. "You should be better at telling when an attack is coming. You're a pokemorph. POKEmorph. Implying POKEMON. You should be able to tell when someone is preparing for an attack, and more importantly, know when one is coming. I cheat, I have some kind of second sight deal, but seriously. Learn to watch yourself." Kalseng said, taking a breath of calming. "More importantly, I'm still traveling with you. Just control your temper, and you won't wake up with more of those leaves in your face. Also," Kalseng said, turning to Taylor again, "I do have a reason. If you two hadn't blocked those attacks, I would have assumed that you were weak and/or incapable of fighting, and thus a danger to have around when I'm being hunted by Specialist and/or pokemorph hunters." Kalseng yawned, and his instincts told him to brace himself. Kalseng dropped a hand to his armrest, and the train came to a jarring halt. "Ecureteak city, here we come." Kalseng said, standing up.

 

[Snow Phoenix]

"Well you seemed to be helpless... and I just... you know... wanted to see... if you were okay. Would you mine taking me away from here? I have money, why don't we go to Ecruteak?" she told the man who appeared from the rock.
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"Lets go they're expecting us in Ecruteak.""Yes Lets. We might even see Kindness" Roy said to himself before teleporting away.

"How interesting I seem to have teleported on a train" Roy said to himself after examining his new surroundings. He had arrived in the train that was coming into Ecruteak...

 

[Wolf in the Rain]

<Damn, that kid has no idea what I've been through.> Marcus thought, sparks jumping up and down his body <I could beat him with my hands tied behind my back.>

"If you let yourself get that way, there's no telling what you'll do once you're there," Taylor bit her lip. "Trust me, I'd know."

Taylor put her hand on Marcus' shoulder, calming him down and causing the orange fur on his chest to once again recede. He turned, staring deep into her eyes, "Right... Your right." Marcus panted, lowing his head.

"You," Kalseng said, turning to Taylor and catching the group's attention, "I'm traveling with. You have great instincts, and caught what I was doing immediately." Kalseng smiled and then turned to Marcus. "You," he spat. "You should be better at telling when an attack is coming. You're a pokemorph. POKEmorph. Implying POKEMON. You should be able to tell when someone is preparing for an attack, and more importantly, know when one is coming. I cheat, I have some kind of second sight deal, but seriously. Learn to watch yourself." Kalseng said, taking a breath of calming. "More importantly, I'm still traveling with you. Just control your temper, and you won't wake up with more of those leaves in your face. Also," Kalseng said, turning to Taylor again, "I do have a reason. If you two hadn't blocked those attacks, I would have assumed that you were weak and/or incapable of fighting, and thus a danger to have around when I'm being hunted by Specialist and/or pokemorph hunters."

Marcus felt his anger well up in him, only Taylor's words were holding him back. Suddenly the train came to a jarring halt. "Ecureteak city, here we come." Kalseng said, standing up.

"'Control your temper'?" Marcus said in an almost laughing manner, brushing Taylor's hand off of his shoulder as he walked to the boy, stopping about a foot in front of him. Sparks started to travel up and down his body. "Before you go giving people advice on temper, I'd learn to control yours." Marcus added in a rather calm manner, completely contrary to the anger building inside of him "You know, Twitch, shooting random daggers at people isn't exactly 'controlling your temper'."

Marcus' voice rose as his tail swayed behind him, "Oh, and Twitch, imply that I'm some sort of 'animal' or give me 'advice' again, and you're going to have more to worry about than bounty hunters ripping your throat out. You talk about coming with us, but if you keep pulling stunts like that, your going to find yourself very alone."

Marcus turned away from Kalseng, unable to look at him any longer. Tucking his tail into a leg of his pants, Marcus took a deep breath to calm himself down. "Well, come on, no use staying here."

 

[zZRaoto]

First to come out was the sort of skinny kid with brown hair. Tin charged up electricity around his hand and prepared to attack.

CRACK! A loud sound of electricity hitting a solid surface caused a loud cracking noise to fill the still air. Tin had punched the boy hard in the face, causing his whole body to move back, not expecting the punch.

Then the armored "companions" of Tin surrounded the brown haired boy. Next to come was the Raichu Poke'Morph. Tin quickly thought out his attack in his head. He knew the boy would suspect something after hearing the loud cracking noise and would be more conscious.

Come on, your next. Tin anxiously waited for the next "special" passenger exited the train. He was prepared to kill for the sake of the Pokemon.

 

[Mira]

They were under attack.

A bolt of electricity had struck Kalseng and now he was being surrounded. Taylor had run back onto the train before she could see what happened to Marcus and she had no idea where the new girl had went.

Where's the coward on the roof of the train? Taylor thought darkly.

The lightning had been close range and it hadn't hit him at much of an angle, so it would have to be... here. Taylor took a step back and crouched down. Fire flared up inside her and she held it, feeling it pulse as it grew stronger. She released it with a grunt at the ceiling, blasting a hole. Sure enough, a boy about a year younger than herself fell through, landing painfully on his back. Using her speed, Taylor ran over behind him and twisted his hands behind his back, tying them with a small strip of rope. She placed her knife to the side of his face and held her free hand to the back of his neck, slowly allowing small amounts of dark thoughts to drip into his skin.

"Don't move or you'll wish that explosion killed you," Taylor hissed menacingly into his ear. "Now, you don't look like you're a part of Neo Vexas, so I've decided to give you a chance to explain yourself. Start explaining."

 

[Gewitterdrache27]

Jack wondered about what Kindle had said. She seemed sincere, and Jack had no money. So, Jack quickly made the 'rock' disappear. He then became a Gliscor and used his large claws to grab Kindle. It was probably a bit painful, but it was only temporary. He lifted off with an aerial ace and began speeding towards Ecruteak. She better hold on tight. He thought. This'll be a fast ride. If she falls off... I don't want to think. He accelerated at a rapid rate as he made it towards Ecruteak, weaving through the trees, careful to avoid letting Kindle hit one.

 

[Wolf in the Rain]

Marcus began to sniff the air, searching for a scent that could help him locate the attackers. Taylor had pinned the boy from earlier, tying his hands behind his back. The kid had seemed sincere earlier on top of the train, but seeing that he just attacked Kalseng, that probably just an act.

Suddenly, he caught a faint scent of another Pokemon, he turned and stood poised for battle.

"Heads up Taylor, we got a Morph right-" Marcus, stopped in mid-sentence as his enhanced hearing picked up a sound to his left. His eyes widened as he turned his head, but by then it was too late. A Sneasel using Faint Attack appeared as if out of nowhere and slammed into Marcus into the opposing wall of the train.

The Sneasel then turned to Taylor and the boy, holding up a claw menacingly and sliding it slowly in front of it's own throat in the 'guillotine' motion.

All of a sudden, a Raichu enveloped in a ball of lightning, smacked into the Sneasel sending it flying into the other wall of the train.

Wiping a trickle of blood from the corner of it's mouth with it's paw, the Raichu stood back up, it's tail swaying back and forth. "Finally," Marcus yelled "I've been waiting for a fight all day."

 

[Kalseng]

Kalseng was thrown against the wall of the train, partly from instinct, partly from shock, partly from the fact that the area was teeming with dark energy. Kalseng suddenly felt a twitch in his right eye, and the area stopped moving. In his mind, he ran to help the two in front of him, and a gunshot rang out, followed by a bunch of "Neo Vexans" toting large, high-caliber guns. Kalseng was snapped back to reality, and he turned to the two in front of him.

"Neo Vexans! They're coming!" Kalseng said. "Quick! MOVE!" Kalseng enforced. He realized that the two of them were rather occupied, and more importantly, that neither of them were quite in the mood to be following Kalseng's orders. He silently prayed to Arceus that somehow they'd be fine. "N-e-o V-e-x-a-n-s," Kalseng added, just to imply that it was an issue.

 

[zZRaoto]

While Tin waited for the next passenger to exit, which he assumed would be the Poke'Morph, a sudden blast of fire flared through the roof of the train. Then all of a sudden a throbbing pain took hold of Tin's hand.

"Aaah!" Something had tied his hands up and their grip was so painful.


"Don't move or you'll wish that explosion killed you," A voice whispered in his ear with a sinister type of threatening tone, "Now, you don't look like you're a part of Neo Vexas, so I've decided to give you a chance to explain yourself. Start explaining."

Neo Vexas? Once again Tin was baffled, "What's Neo Vexas?" Was all he could say before he realized how serious this person, whom sounded like a girl, was.

"I don't know what your talking about. I was just trying to protect the Pokemon World. The people in the armored suits," Tin stopped, wondering if they were part of Neo Vexas, "They told me that you guys were the evil ones, trying to destroy the Pokemon." He paused and thought back over what they said, They threatened me....and they didn't sound very nice. They were so mean to me." He started thinking like a little kid and he felt like he was going to die.

"They told me they would kill me if I didn't help them stop you...that's it...."