pregnant, although it wasn't much of a shock. In addition to
Michelle's announcement, Michelle and Luke still had to deal with
the issue of whether or not they wanted to change into Pok�mon
again.
Eventually they both came to a decision. They found Joey in her
bedroom, working on a sketch. She did that quite a bit when she
was bored and there was nothing else to do. And Utah wasn't
exactly the most inviting place in the world either. Hot in the
summer and cold in the winter.
"Joey, we wanna do it," Luke said.
"Huh?" Joey perked up and looked at them, a bit confused.
"The machine," Luke said. "We wanna change back."
Joey hopped off her bed and stood up, then looked at them. "Now
you're sure you wanna do it?"
"Absolutely," Michelle said.
"In that case, follow me."
Joey led them down to her lab, then got the machine ready. It
hadn't been too long, so Michelle and Luke would still be fairly
strong. Joey checked the machine to make sure it still worked
since Jadsy had accidentally used it, then turned to Luke and
Michelle.
Jadsy walked in a few minutes later. By this time she was a
fairly strong Pikachu, so she was looking forward to the change.
Joey hadn't taught her transform yet, so for the time being she
was stuck as a Jadsy-Chu.
Jads watched in interest as Joey position the ray, then had Luke
stand in front of it. He was visibly nervous, but not much.
Joey stood back behind the machine, then switched it on. A beam
of energy shot out and hit Luke, then he began to glow brightly.
As soon as he was glowing, he immediately began to change. His
ears changed to a Raichu's, and a tail appeared. Fur also began
to appear on his shoulders, as well as his hands and feet. When
the transformation was complete the machine shut off. He was
exactly the same as he had been before he changed into a human
again. (See the picture by Magick for a sketch of my character).
Joey allowed the machine to cool for a while, then Michelle stood
where Luke had been standing a few minutes earlier. Joey
switched the machine on a second time, and Michelle transformed
in the same way.
The machine shut down, the Michelle and Luke looked at each
other. They were actually glad to be Pok�mon again. They felt
so helpless without their powers, but they had them again.
Almost immediately after they left Joey's lab, Jadsy challenged
Luke to a battle. Joey, however, refused to allow Luke to battle
so soon. He would have to practice a bit and relearn how to use
his attacks effectively. Jads smiled, then gave Luke a quick
jolt before walking away. It didn't hurt him at all, but Joey
still told her not to do it again.
Over the next few weeks, Luke practice using his attacks daily.
Michelle practiced as well, but not as much as Luke. She would
have to stay out of battle for a while since she was pregnant.
Eventually Luke was back to his old self, and Jads felt it was
time to challenge him again.
Luke accepted, and they both headed to the arena privately.
Neither of them wanted anybody to watch them, because Joey would
probably interfere and say that Luke still wasn't ready. Luke,
however, felt that he was ready.
They agreed to fight a timed battle, rather than a sudden death
match where the first one to faint loses. Jadsy knew that Luke
could easily beat her in a match like that, so a timed battle was
her best shot as earning some levels quickly.
They decided to make the match two minutes. It didn't seem like
much, but a lot could happen in that amount of time. Jads and
Luke both learned that quickly when the match started.
They flew at each other with Quick Attack at the same time. They
ran directly into each other and both fell backwards. Luke got
up, but Jads was the first to attack. She used Thunder, and
managed to catch Luke off guard. It did some damage to him, but
it wasn't critical.
Luke responded with a Psybeam which Jads barely managed to dodge.
He quickly shot another at her, not quite as powerful, but it was
enough. It hit Jads and knocked her over, then she got up
slowly. Jads was surprised that Luke had managed to fire
Psybeams that rapidly, but she knew that he could do it even
faster than that. She began to dodge as Luke shot two more at
her, and was successful with both.
Meanwhile, Joey was secretly setting up her machine in a hidden
corner of the arena. When it was ready, she aimed it at Jads and
got ready to turn it on.
Luke had been running back and forth, firing Psybeams as he ran,
and suddenly stopped. He saw something out of the corner of his
eye. He looked over just in time to see Joey flip the switch on
her machine.
Joey's target wasn't Luke, however. It was Jads. The beam of
energy zapped Jads and left as fast as it had come. Joey winked
at me, then disappeared with her machine. I looked at Jads, who
was just getting up off the floor. She hadn't changed
psychically, but I knew that wasn't Joey's intention.
"I feel funny," Jadsy said. "I'm kinda tingling all over."
Luke thought for a second, then stepped back. "Hit me."
Jads spun around and looked at him. "What?"
"Hit me."
Jads stepped forward, but Luke stopped her. "No, hit me without
actually touching me."
Jads was beyond confused now. What did Luke mean? She thought
for a minute, and suddenly she began to glow. She froze and
stopped glowing, then looked around in wonder.
"Very interesting, but could you put me down Jads?"
Jads snapped out of her trance, then looked at Luke. When she
did that, Luke fell back to the floor, slightly off balance. She
didn't realize it, but she had been using psychic powers to cause
Luke to rise up off the floor. It turns out that the beam Joey
hit Jads with only gave Jads psychic powers.
Jads was actually glad that had happened. She didn't want to be
a Pikachu all the time. With psychic powers, she would be able
to learn Transform, then change back to her old self again.
Jads and Luke headed back to the cabin and joined the others in a
game of Go Fish for a few hours. After they all quit, Luke
headed to his room and pulled out his notebook. He wrote a few
pages in a story that he was working on, then put it away.
Michelle came in a few minutes later and sat down next to him.
"Am I the only one that's bored out of my mind?" Michelle asked.
"Not really," Luke replied. "Don't worry though, there's lots to
do around here."
"Like what?" Michelle asked him.
Luke stared at her blankly for a few moments. "That's what I
thought," Michelle said. She laid down on the bed, then pulled
the blanket over herself. Luke smiled, then laid down next to
her and fell asleep.
The next day they headed out in Luke's Mustang. Michelle and
Luke drove around for a while, then stopped near a lake. They
walked around for a few hours, then drove back to the cabin. On
the way to the cabin, Luke began to feel very cold. It was
fairly warm outside, but he was still cold.
Luke didn't recognize the feeling at first. When they got back
to the cabin, it was still there (the feeling). Luke had felt it
before, but he couldn't figure out when. The other people that
had psychic powers felt it too, but they couldn't figure it out
either. Jads especially, since she had never felt it before.
Luke was in his room thinking about it when suddenly he jumped up
and ran full speed into the living room where the others were
playing a game.
"IT'S TAC!!!"
The others immediately spun around to face him.
"Wha, what did you say?" Joey said quietly.
"I know what the source of the coldness is. It's Tac. I had the
exact same feeling whenever Tac was around."
Suddenly it all fit together. Everybody else realized it was
true almost immediately after Luke said it. The trouble was, why
were they all feeling that way? Tac was back on Pok�mon Island,
probably still looking for them there. Or was he? The thought
was unsettling to all of them.
They all decided to ignore it, then went back to playing a game.
After the game was over, they all went to bed. That night,
everybody had the exact same dream. Tac appeared at the cabin
during the day, destroyed it, as well as everybody that was
inside.
The dream was far too realistic for any of them to ignore. They
knew that Tac was coming for sure now. The question was, when?
Everybody began to prepare in various ways. Team Rocket47 had
been destroyed twice now, and a they didn't want it to be three.
Luke thought about the last time Team Rocket47 had been
destroyed. He had been killed, but nobody knew it. After being
killed, he had been sent back to his body as if he'd never died
at all. He had woken up in the Emergency Room after being
unconscious for a while.
Luke knew that Tac would be seeking revenge on him yet again, but
Tac would still kill all the members if he got the chance. Joey
was in a similar situation as Luke, but Luke would be Tac's first
target.
One day, Luke was busy working in the Underground Headquarters,
feeding the Pok�mon. He jumped as the door slammed shut, because
everybody was really nervous about Tac. He turned around as Jads
came running down the stairs in her Anthro form, since she had
recently learned Transform.
"What's up?"
Luke was breathing rapidly from being startled. "WOULD YOU
PLEASE NOT DO THAT???"
Jads apologized, then looked at him. "Just calm down. We all
know that Tac's coming, but you don't need to be so jumpy about
it."
"You don't have to worry as much. You're not the first person on
his hit list."
Jadsy immediately saw his point. She apologized again, then
walked closer to him. "You should really loosen up. You've been
way too tense ever since you first felt that Tac was coming."
Jads put her arm around his waist, and he began to feel
uncomfortably warm. Michi happened to walk downstairs at the
moment. Jads kissed Luke on the cheek, then walked to another
part of the Headquarters. Michi walked up to Luke and gave him
an angry look.
"You're married, remember?"
"It was her," Luke said, pointing to Jads as she walked away.
Michelle smiled, then hugged him. "I know. I was just giving
you a hard time."
"I kinda knew that," Luke replied, although he wasn't entirely
sure in all honesty. Michi was sarcastic quite often, and he
didn't always know whether or not she was being serious.
They left the Underground Headquarters together, then walked into
the cabin. The others were playing a game, as always, so nothing
had changed much. The game wasn't as lively though, since
everybody was thinking about Tac. A few moments later, however,
they didn't have to think about him any longer.
A tree outside exploded in a ball of fire, and that wasn't
something that happened every day. They all rushed outside, and
sure enough, Tac was there waiting for them.
"Voldemort! Er...TAC!!!" Luke yelled.
Tac glared at Luke as the writer cracked up. He didn't exactly
like being confused with characters from other stories. Even Tac
did seem to act like Voldemort at times, he never liked it. He
responded to Luke's shout by firing a Psybeam at him, which Luke
dodged with no trouble.
They all responded at the same time to Tac's attack by using
Thunder. As good as he was, Tac couldn't deflect the attacks of
Luke, Michelle, Joey, Kat, Dreana, Magick, Jadsy-Chu, and Mewtwo
at the same time. No Pok�mon was capable of deflecting eight
fully-charged Thunder attacks at the same time.
The concentration of electricity from all the attacks converging
on him the same time caused him to shake uncontrollably as he
flew through the air. He landed on the ground roughly, then got
back up. He looked at everybody, then realized that he was badly
outnumbered. There was no way that he could avoid losing. He
couldn't escape either. He flew up into the air, but everybody
used their psychic powers on him and prevented him from moving.
He was trapped, and he wasn't going anywhere. They all fired
Psybeams at the Tac the same time, but rather then hitting him
directly, they converged below him into a single massive beam.
The beam hit Tac, and he was lifted into the air from the force
of it. The amount of energy was far too great for even Tac to
withstand and live. After a few moments, Tac died.
Tac, however, didn't just die. The force of the beam incinerated
the body as well. He wouldn't be coming back because Luke knew
where Tac was going now that he was dead. He was pure evil, and
he wasn't getting through the gates with a mark like that.
At that moment they all heard a scream echo through the trees,
and Luke's thought was confirmed. Luke imagined Tac as a little
ugly guy with horns and a tail, although it was sort of scary.
They all went back inside, relieved that they could get on with
their lives like normal. They no longer had to worry about Tac
since he was dead.
The next few weeks were carefree for everybody in TR47. Tac was
gone, everybody was playing games and doing stuff, and things
like that.
<I realize I'm milking this for all it's worth right here, but I
can do what I want.>
One day Joey approached Luke and looked at him. She didn't even
have to say anything before Luke stood and up gestured for her to
follow. She obeyed, and followed him to his bedroom. He went to
the dressed next to the bed and grabbed the keys to his Mustang
and tossed them to Joey.
"You know the rules, Joey."
She nodded, then quickly ran out the door, smiling. Luke
listened and heard her start the car, then rev the engine and
drive away. He smiled, because he knew how Joey was in his car.
She didn't drive it any crazier than he did, so he was more
willing to give her the keys.
Joey returned a few hours later with a bunch of groceries, as
well as some other stuff. She was sneaking around with some of
the bags, and Luke knew why. Michelle, on the other hand, was
completely oblivious to Joey's sneaking. Michelle knew that her
Birthday was only a few days away, but she didn't notice Joey
sneaking with the bags of presents.
<The great writer, Joey Oak, fwapped Luke for not being able to
write his own story.>
Joey sat on a stool in her lab staring at her closet,
wondering if she dare open it. She knew a pile of stuff would
fall on her if she tried to open it but then again she had
absolutely no wrapping paper at all. She was stuck at a cruel
dilemma. Wrapping paper and injury, or no injury and no wrapping
paper. What a decision.
She looked to the present that sat on the table. It'd be
easy to keep it in the bag but she was Michi's sister. She at
least needed to show some effort. And effort meant she needed
wrapping paper.
But last time she opened that closet she got a big bump on
her head that really hurt. So she had kind of a fear to open it.
Bumps hurt you know.
Then the idea struck her! She jumped up off of her stool and
ran for to the door and unbolted the big locks. Then the stuck
her head out the door and yelled, "LUUUUUUUKE!!! I NEED YOUR
HELP!!!"
A few moments later Luke walked over to her door with his
arms crossed. "What do you need my strong manly help for this
time? Because I'm not going to be a guinea pig for one of your
whacked out experiments again."
Joey smiled then grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him
down the stairs and into her lab. She let go of his arm and
pointed to the closet. "I need you to open that."
Luke casually walked over to the door. Pondering he asked,"Is the door stuck or something?"
Joey held back a huge snigger. "In a way. Just open it."
"Whatever you say." He gave her a look then proceeded to
open the door when of corse, a pile of stuff fell on him.
Joey chuckled, then pulled a roll of wrapping paper out of
the pile and set it on the table. She heard a muffled sound from
under the rubble that sounded a great deal like, "That was harsh
Joey" but she took no notice of it. She leaned back on the table
while Luke dug his way out of the pile of stuff before pointing
to the door and saying, "Out."
Luke scowled then left, Joey locking the door behind him.
<The great writer Joey Oak then sent the story back to the real
writer in hopes that he can finish it himself.>
<The real writer, me, looked over the part Joey wrote, satisfied. Now he may continue since he is over the writer�s block.>
After Luke left and the door was locked, Joey cut off a sheet of wrapping paper and wrapped Michi�s present carefully. After inspecting it carefully she slid it aside, satisfied, and looked at the pile of junk on the floor.
She sighed, because she would have to clean up the mess. She didn�t even know why she had all that junk still. Even with all the times that Tac had destroyed the headquarters, she always had a closet filled with junk. She didn�t want to do it herself, because it might fall on her while she was piling it in.
She got another idea, so she unlocked the door and stuck her head out again. �LUUUUUUUKE!!!�
�NO!!!�
Joey muttered and locked the door, then walked over to the closet. She began throwing stuff into the closet, wondering how she�d managed to collect so much junk. The pile in closet began to grow, and soon she had everything piled in. In the process of shutting the door, the pile leaned over and came crashing down on top of her.
<Just to avoid plagiarism, I�m thanking Joey right now for allowing me to abuse the closet.>
Joey moaned and crawled out of the pile, then felt her head. She was going to have one heck of a headache in a little while. She started cleaning up the pile a second time, and when she was almost finished she noticed a gold pendant lying among the junk. She reached down and picked up the pendant, then realized her mistake.
The pile came crashing down on her a second time, irritating Joey even more. Once again she climbed out, but this time she stopped to the at the pendant she was holding. Luke had given it to her a long time ago, but she had lost it. How it had made its way into the pile of junk was beyond her.
She put the pendant around her neck, then began throwing stuff into the closet a third time. She held up the pile while grabbing the door, then finally forced it shut. The door looked like it was going to break off its hinges.
Joey stepped back and looked at the door. It sounded like it was going to shatter. Suddenly the door burst open and Joey braced herself, but to herself the pile of junk didn�t come crashing down. It just stayed where it was in the closet. She turned around and saw Luke standing in the doorway of her lab. He was using his psychic powers to hold up the junk.
Joey shut the door again, then turned to him. �Thanks,� she mumbled as Luke left. She then looked around her lab. Her present to Michi was still lying on the table. She picked it up, then hid it in a safe place.
After hiding the present, Joey walked out of her lab, locking the door behind her. She went upstairs and made sure nobody had ben eavesdropping, then joined them in a game of Go Fish.
Eventually Michi�s birthday came, and there was a huge party. Michi was 25 now. After playing games for a while, Michi opened her presents.
<Note: if you think Michi should be older than 25, too bad. I say she�s 25 now, so she is. If you really care that much, just flame me like everybody else. On second thought, don�t flame me, because I get enough junk mail already.>
Michi was eventually down to only two presents. One from Luke and one from Joey. Most of what she had gotten was baby stuff. Joey and Luke looked at each other, because they knew they hadn�t give Michi baby stuff.
Michi looked at the two presents, then picked up Joey�s. She tore off the paper and looked at the box. She broke the pieces of tape with her fingernails, then opened the box carefully. Inside the box was a set of two keys. Michi looked at them a bit confused.
She examined the keys, and Luke pointed out the Mustang logo on one side. She ran outside, and sure enough there was a Mustang the exact same color and style as Luke�s. There was only one way to tell them apart. Luke�s license plate read �IM HYPER� while Michi�s read �MICHIS GT� on the plate.
<For those of you who don�t know, a GT is a more powerful model of Ford Mustang. There�s the regular Coupe/Convertible, then there�s the GT Coupe/Convertible.>
Now there were two Mustang Convertibles parked outside of the cabin. Luke saw that the Supercharger was already installed. Joey must have hidden the car well to not let Michi see it.
After Michi calmed down, she went back inside and picked up the present from Luke. It was fairly small, but Michi didn�t care. She tore off the paper, revealing a small jewelry box. She opened the small box, and inside was a gold necklace. She pulled it out, and hanging on the end was a gold heart-shaped locket.
She carefully pried the locket open with her fingernails, and smiled. Inside were two sketches. One was of Luke, and the other was of Michi. The sketches had been done by Magick just for that reason. Michi closed the locket again and put it around her neck.
She hugged Luke, then everybody threw away the wrapping paper from the presents. They had a bit of mess to clean up, so they did it before going to bed. The next day was rather uneventful. There was still nothing to do, and the absence of a villain only made things worse. As annoying as Tac was, he added variety to the days.
Another day passed, but rather than sitting around doing nothing, they went into town and played miniature golf and went bowling. When they got back, they started a game of Go Fish. They had only been playing a few minutes when there was a knock at the door.
�I�ll get it,� Luke said as he stood up. He walked to the door thinking, �Who know that we live here?� He opened the door, and there were two people. One of them Luke recognized immediately as Harry Potter. He would�ve been in complete disbelief, but he knew that anything could happen around here.
The woman that was with Harry, however, Luke had never seen before. �Can I help you?� Luke asked.
�I don�t have a clue what we�re doing here,� Harry replied. �She�s the one in charge. I�m just along for the ride.�
Luke nodded, then looked at the woman standing next to him. He cleared his throat, and she snapped out of her trance as she was thinking.
�And you would be . . .� Luke said.
�Lisa.�
Okay, I FINALLY finished Chapter XI. It�s been close to done for weeks now, but I�ve been at a loss for words due to writer�s block. Firstly, I like to say thanks to Joey for breaking that writer�s block. It was pretty bad. As you probably already guessed, the part Joey write is in red. I�d also like to thank Lisa for throwing some ideas at me *is hit with another of Lisa�s ideas*. Save it for Chapter XII! Lisa suggested that I put her and Harry in the Chapter, so I did. That gives me some more breathing room, because now I have some new ideas to work with. Anyway, I guess I�ll start Chapter XII now. I�m not sure what will happen, so you�ll have to wait. Seeya then! ~Luke Judd~
�March 19, 2001