Open New Liberty

[RespectTheBlade]

Atticus walked into Team Plasma's main control room. He could see the pokemon on a small screen inside.

Aticus turned to the voice-activated computer.

"Let them go. Time to see what they can do before we can sell them to the Trainers. They're anxious for their rare Pokemon, so let's see if this was worth it."

"Yes, Sir.", The computer said back to them in an electronic voice.

Atticus sat back in a leather office chair and watched the screen as the Pokemon fell to the floor of the cell.

"This should be interesting...", He thought.

 

[Stormecho]

Her sister's eyes were bright, sparkling with curiosity as they sat on the floor. Her room didn't have purple walls - or were they blue? The colours kept changing, weird - but this was a dream and it didn't matter that light kept shifting around, because that was how it was right now.

"Doesn't it hurt?" she asked now, and Kiera blinked.

"What?"

"Doesn't it hurt when your mind gets bigger but your body is smaller? Like being squeezed and stretched all at once? Tell the truth, Kiera." Her voice was suddenly solemn, her eyes blank.

"It hurts."

It did - that was what Kiera first realized, eyes opening and darkness keeping her from seeing anything. It hurt badly. Her arms especially, and she couldn't move, and the prickling feeling of limbs going numb combined with the sensation of being tied up. Except rope wasn't cold, or heavy, or made of metal. She struggled to make the intuitive leap, and began to move, or try to, when she realized. Chains. She was chained up. What - what had happened? She couldn't remember anything other than playing a game, and then probably falling asleep. So how had she ended up like - like this?

Fear was welling up, and she was drowning in it, but just when she thought she would hang here and die out of pure terror - the chains suddenly retracted, and she fell to land roughly on the concrete floor. There was no way to get to her feet, and when she reached out with her arms, straining, there was nothing. Dazed and wishing this was just a horrible nightmare, she didn't try much more than that. There was something that bothered her - a sort of awareness of a lot of people around her, coupled with the feeling that something very, very bad had happened, but well, that was obvious, wasn't it?

So she just stayed where she was, head pounding. Maybe if she closed her eyes again, she would wake up - but that seemed very unlikely indeed.

 

[RespectTheBlade]

((I would like to note in the first post that when Atticus said what he did, the pokemon were released, and fell to the floor. sorry about the confusion, if there is any.))

 

[Metalos]

Did... Did I pass out?

Denzil's body felt pain. It felt exhausted, as though it had been completely worn out somehow. But how could that have happened? The last thing he remembered was turning on his DS to play the latest release of his favourite Pokemon game, Heart Gold, after a particularly melancholy day. And upon flicking the switch... something had happened. An electric shock perhaps? Dismissing it as a mundane accident, he opened his eyes, and found that he could not see. He had been blindfolded.

Fear raced through him, adrenaline surging through his veins as he was overtaken with terror. He tried to move his body, but all there was in response was a jingle of metal. The revelation that he was chained up only making his panic grow worse. Struggling against his bonds, to his sudden surprise, the chains vanished, along with the blindfold, and he felt himself falling down a shaft of some kind. As he fell, he attempted to stop himself by holding out his hand to scrape against the wall, only to discover that his arm had replaced with something else - something inhuman.

Emerging out the other side of the tunnel, Denzil let out a high-pitched squeal as he crashed down headfirst onto the concrete floor. A blow that should have killed him, had he been human. Dazed, he opened his eyes and looked around the cramped concrete chamber he'd landed in, his sight blurred and distorted, but his senses sharpened beyond anything he'd ever felt before. And with them, he could tell that something was very, very wrong.

He could feel his body's shape now... even if he could not see it. He wasn't human anymore. He was something else. But right now, he didn't want to know what. Smelling another creature close to him, he crawled forwards on all four legs, his pointed snout bumping into a bright green bird in his confusion.

A snout!? Since when do I have one of those!?

 

[Silver]

Urgg...Wha- What?

Anju didn't know if she should open her eyes. She felt wierd, as if her whole body was asleep. She was about to open her eyes when she felt her body lurch down. She let out a yelp as she landed on the ground.

Anju opened her eyes to see some other figures around her. Her attemps to role onto her side weren't useful, so she pushed up. She seemed to be on all fours, and she almost tripped as she tried to walk. She looked down at her hands, and saw something else completely. Paws. She had paws, and she didn't even understand why.

What do I remember...? I started to play my Emerald game...and now it's blank. But I can remember my name and age...? What happened? She looked closer at her paws and felt something on her head bump on the floor.

She reached her new paw up, still not used to the motion, and touched her head. There seemed to be...ears. So now I have ears?!

 

[BlackTitress]

Riku slowly awoke on a solid concrete floor.Where am I? What happened? Why is my nose so sensitive? Where's my DS? what happened to Mt. Silver training? His curious mind was bombarded with questions, but he was still very confused. He eventually calmed down, and managed to try one question at a time.

Ok... I have no idea where I am or what happened,My DS isn't here, meaning the training is pointless to answer, but what about my nose? He looked down at his feet and realized he had paws. He then realized he was standing on four of them, but had no hands. Some one else would have freaked out, but he noticed a little tail swinging from behind him and wanted to see where it came from.

So he started chasing it...

 

[Flareth]

Her eyes shot open.

"Where am I?" Chisai muttered, looking around, "P-Pokemon. I must be dreaming."

She ran to try and hug the Pokemon but noticed her running was off. She looked at her legs. Four, blue-furred legs.

She let out a scream.

 

[Stormecho]

Kiera didn't have much of a choice in trying to banish the world around her, because suddenly a squeal and a crash alerted her to someone else falling, and when she opened her eyes, she beheld -

A Cyndaquil. Squinted eyes and pointed muzzle and a sense of fire and simmering anger like coals before she realized what she was looking at and tried to inch backwards. This had to be a dream - but there were welts from the chains, and the cold sapped her strength and she could feel the concrete beneath her. She struggled to her feet, straining to try and spread her arms - and stubby wings flapped at the very edge of her vision. She froze, moved them carefully, and tried to cry out when they moved accordingly. The sound wasn't a human sound though, but a panicked trill, and the shock made her fall silent.

She had wings. Wings like - like a Natu, she remembered, trying to focus on the glimpse of the pattern. When she finally got her feet under her, she realized she had to stand differently, and it should have been awkward, hunching on long-taloned legs, but... it wasn't. It felt natural.

Now that her panic was fading - her thoughts still ran in circles, demanding why she was in a game - she could remember her dream, and when she reached back for the memory she... Felt.

It was a tingle of awareness, like the prickle on the back of your neck when you knew someone was watching you, but it wasn't unnerving, but almost soothing. She could feel the Pokemon around her - the Shinx was a crackle of yellow and blue and white in her head, a small jumble of sparks that hissed - and the Cyndaquil was a fire that consumed and sank back down sullenly, and two were voids that her mind shirked away from. She couldn't believe what she was doing, and her head hurt - but she didn't break away from this sudden new sense. She couldn't...

 

[Chief Zackrai]

Leon woke up from a peaceful slumber, as he remembered. He sat up and swished his tail. His tail? Since when did he have a tail? He tried to stand, but found his head to be spinning, and his legs too short. Yellow, too. What was going on here? Desperate, Leon began to cry.

 

[Metalos]

Stumbling backwards, recoiling in fright from having bumped his strange new body into an equally strange new creature, Denzil reared backwards and landed in a seated position on his back legs, his front paws dangling down over the cream fur covering his chest. Twisting his snout out of the way so that he could get a better look over himself, he started down at his new body for about a minute before a name finally popped into his head that could adequately describe what he had become.

Cyndaquil! I've been changed into a Pokemon!

It was like a nightmare. A horrible feeling of suffocation building up in his chest as he panicked. Coming to the startled realization that this was really happening to him right now. Feeling as though he was choking, Denzil opened his mouth, coughing out smoke in a high-pitched version of his regular human voice. His gag reflex kicking in, his newly-changed body not yet used to breathing smoke, there was a gushing noise as his back exploded into flame, followed by another squeal as he felt the bones of his spine grind together in agony.

Falling forwards back onto all fours, his back a raging inferno beyond his control, he opened his eye slits and stared through a shimmering haze, his eyes wide and glaring and his pupils shrunk to the size of pin points. He was terrified and confused, and he felt threatened by the other Pokemon he could sense everywhere around him. Opening his mouth wide, he released a barrage of blazing embers in the direction of the nearest target - the Natu.

Stay away! Stay away!

He screamed inside his mind, tears appearing in the corners of his stretched eyelids as he struggled to come to terms with what had happened to him, so frightened that he felt the only way to feel safe was to scare away everything in sight.

 

[Silver]

Anju looked to the Cyndaquil as it blew flames. This startled her and she jumped back yelping. She tripped over her own four paws and landed on something that made her yelp. She turned around and saw a poofy, grey tail. It looked similar to those of a Poochyena.

She further examined her paws and saw they were black then turned grey. Her belly also had black on it. I- I've turned into a Poochyena?! She couldn't walk on four legs, so atteping one more time, she almost ran into the Cyndaquil.

 

[RespectTheBlade]

....ugrhg. I think I fell, or something.

Sittting up and opening his eyes, Brendon tried to remember what happened.

I was going to play Emerald for a bit. I turned on my DS, and then... Then what?

He stood up, and heard noises coming from one side of the room. He walked over. His head felt strangely heavy, and he felt like he was limping. He turned a corner and saw a Cyndaquil and a Poochyena.

Wha?! Pokemon?! But why would they be here? I've only seen them in books!

Yet there they were, right in front of his eyes. He walked over, and saw that he was the same height as the two of them.

That's odd...

Brendon looked at himself for the first time. He was a Bagon. He sat down and tried to think, but he seriously thought that he was going insane. He was a Pokemon. A Pokemon.

 

[....]

Lyra slowly drifted downwards, her ghost-proof shackles remaining attached to the ceiling.

When she "hit" the floor, her eyes snapped wide open. Wasn't she just playing Heartgold a minute ago...?

Lyra looked at herself. A ghostly form, red pearl necklace...

A Misdreavus.

She then felt a bit more nourished. Odd. She hadn't eaten anything recently. Was it all the others' fears that were feeding her?

It had to be. She was a Misdreavus, after all.

Then a brilliant idea came to her mind. She could wail better than ever now to frighten people!

And with that thought came an ear-piercing scream.

 

[River]

Allum awoke to a sleep-shattering scream. He place his hands over his ears and curled into a ball in an attempt to excape the waking world.

Wait... wasn't I just about to play Ruby? Then why am I asleep...

He pried his eyes open, forcing himself to take in the light around him. He propped himself up with one hand and he felt something weird. He seemed to be missing two of his fingers. He looked at the palm of his hand and took a sharp breath. His hand was green, he only had three fingers and nearby there were pokemon.

Ominous...

He staggered to his feet and began to pad his way over, falling several times in the attempt. He eventually reached the Poochyena and sat back... onto something connected to him, he spun around and found he was sitting on a two lobed tail.

Great, now I have a tail? Wait a second... Allum looked himself over.

"Okay, I'm a treecko, this day just gets better and better..." he mumbled and rested his head in his hands.

 

[Stormecho]

Kiera hadn't been sure if any of them could speak - but she quickly forgot about that little problem when the Cyndaquil began to breathe fire. She stumbled back, unable to figure out how to move properly, and she found her arms - her wings - fluttering uselessly at her sides as an ember scalded the ground at her feet. All her movement was terribly uncoordinated, but she vaguely remembered the most inane detail - that birds didn't walk, they hopped when they moved - and she quickly hopped back, almost bumping into another Pokemon as she did so, which was enough to make her reel off-balance and flap her wings in an effort to stay on her feet.

There were more Pokemon now - a Bagon, pulsing with energy that she couldn't quite name, and the quiet strength of something growing which was a Treecko, and -

Something wrong, that grew larger as a piercing scream buffeted her ears. Her eyes snapped shut for a moment, and when she opened them again, she saw a Misdreavus floating, looking quite pleased with yourself. "If you were turned into a Pokemon too - well then, obviously, the first thing you have to do is scare everyone else," she snapped, surprised that her voice - slightly more melodic and bird-like than she remembered - came out clearly. Come to think of it, she had heard other Pokemon mutter something. "How wise of you."

Looking around - and staying far away from the Cyndaquil - she asked, "Does anyone remember anything? Or know where we are?" No one seemed to be eager on calming down the rest, so she supposed she could take on that task for now.

 

[Chief Zackrai]

Leon opened his eyes and settled down, only to find he was in a different spot! How in the world- He started to think before not only did his position change again (now he was beside a Natu), but he was surrounded by Pokemon!

"Woah, cool! A room full of Pokemon! There's a Treeko, a Midreavus, the Natu I am currently beside, a Cyndaquil and a Poocheyena! That is so awesome!" He tried to stand again, and was capable this time. Getting used to the tail would be odd, though. Leon looked up, and saw the he himself was now an Abra. Well, that would explain the sudden place changing...

 

[BlackTitress]

Riku slowly stopped running around, well actually, he tripped and fell on his head, which was guarded by a helmet like object. He finally figured it out.

"Sweet! I'm a Houndour!" He called out loud. He then looked around and saw some other pokemon. Misdreavus, Natu, Abra.. There's a bunch of other pokemon here too! Are they real? Or are they like me? He thought to himself, then started to sniff the air. Many different scents came to his nose, but he decided to follow the one of the Poochyena, since that was a dog pokemon like himself.

Quickly he dashed over, tripped again and landed next to the poochyena.

" 'scuse me, but can you tell me if you've always been a pokemon?" He asked th other dog.

 

[Glace]

Travis looked around him.

"Other Pokemon?" he thought to himself. "Where am I?"

He walked around, cautiously avoiding others as they passed. He wondered how he became a Bulbasaur in the first place. He couldn't remember anything. He decided the only way to understand what was happening was to ask another, although he was extremely resentful of it.

He approached a couple Pokemon, but most of them ignored him or were too "weird" to talk to. Travis always judged a book by its cover. However, this Poochyena looked promising. He walked up to it.

He asked, "Hey, what is this place?"

 

[Metalos]

Watching the Natu fall back and retreat from his flames, his throat burning with the newfound sensation of being able to breathe fire, an ear-piercing scream made him turn around with an alert expression, his gaze came to rest on a Misdreavus who floated in the air. Another potential threat. Lining her up in his metaphorical sights, Denzil opened his mouth once again and screamed back at her, a fireball of compressed flame firing at her and missing, his own aim hindered by the smokescreen he had created by accident around himself. Still not used to the operation of his new Pokemon body.

His fireball continuing onwards, it collided with one of the concrete walls, exploding into a cluster of embers which rained down towards the group who were gathering around a Poochyena in the near-distance. Denzil having accidentally used the Pokemon attack Bursting Flame. Feeling empty, as though he had used up all of his body's fire at least for the moment, the old system of turn-based combat used in the Pokemon games suddenly making sense to him now, he turned at the sound of a voice speaking human. His eyes once again coming to rest on the Natu from before.

Attempting to reply, all that came out was sickly coughing, his body almost child-like in how small and frightened he felt, yet massively destructive in terms of strength and firepower. Even now, the wall his attack had impacted was glowing red with the heat. He felt dizzy and uncomfortably warm, his body temperature easily in excess of 100 degrees centigrade at the moment, hot enough to boil water... which was probably what was happening on the inside of his body. Feeling light-headed, he rolled over on the ground and lay with his back to the floor, trying not to faint as he struggled to cope with the changes that had been forced upon him over a short amount of time.

"Stay away... all of you..."

He murmured weakly to all Pokemon within hearing range - which was pretty much everyone, given that most of them had enhanced senses of some kind. Shivering despite the heatwave, the chill of fear mingling with the blistering heat of his migraine, Denzil stared up at the ceiling and cursed whatever cruel fate had placed him in such a miserable situation.

 

[Silver]

She heard the scream come from no where. Anju was shocked by this and didn't know what to do as she wildly eyed the other Pokemon.

" 'scuse me, but can you tell me if you've always been a Pokemon?" A Houndour came up to her and asked. "Um, no, I haven't always been one." she said to him. Then a Bulbasaur came up to her.

"Hey, what is this place?" he asked her. Why are they all asking me questions...? I know about as much as them... "I don't quite know myself..." she told him.

Suddenly, a shower of embers rained down on her from no where. They landed on her pelt and she shook them off, not being able to balance quite right on four paws still, she fell over. I had better get used to walking on four paws now...since it seems I'm now a Pokemon...