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The Change

Neure was working day and night in his dark, shabby Rustboro apartment. Rotom would sometimes possess the radio to tell him he had to eat or sleep. Neure only listened when he really did have to eat or sleep.
He just couldn't get it right. That man in the Devon Corporation said it didn't work quite right on pokemon, but on humans it was supposed to work almost perfectly. He stole the machine with this assumption, but that assumption seemed to be wrong.
But at least he was close.
The PC was expected to be the real problem, but it wasn't. By hacking, he could create solid objects from the computer's matter generation program.

He was glad his parents didn't know he was a thief, though. He had previously come to Rustboro to learn, but he dropped out of school. They once thought of him as a genius, but his concentration problems always got in the way. He was, as they say, a dreamer.

Anyway, lately everyone around him had seemed a bit tired, and a bit nervous. It seemed he wasn't the only one having bad dreams.

And on the subject of bad dreams, he hadn't had any since that first one, but he was a bit paranoid that he would have another one and it would coincide with the execution of his project.

"Wait, I think I have it now!" he said. Rotom floated up to look at the computer screen. "Yes, that solves everything! I've done it!"

He and Rotom were quite excited now. He hooked the two machines up together, added a simple connective translation program, and began to drag their creation to the outside world.
 
She simply nodded, showing that she was taking in what the tall guy was saying. Although some of it slipped off the vague crevasses of a tired mind. Her Arcanine continued to eye him suspiciously, growling lowly. But she paid him no mind.

“Yeah… that’s where I’m going. Going to get…” She trailed off as the guy seemed to be looking in another direction… the sound of a ruckus reached her ears. Soon, she saw it as well. Her dark eyes gazed at the wild Pokemon apparently running about in the streets… huh. For some reason, they made her feel a bit restless. It seemed Arcanine agreed, as he was about to step forward to fight them away, when she saw a large awe-inspiring serpent Pokemon the likes of which she had remembered seeing once and not forgetting the impression it made on her. The girl held out her hand in front of the Arcanine, who stopped, and growled in frustration. She just watched the beautiful Pokemon work its magic, her eyes wide in admiration and amazement.
 
Rose quickly boarded the boat, her Bayleef at her side. She was hesitant when she reached the entrance, digging through her bag for money. Luckily, she had enough to cover the fare with a little to spare, and after handing it to the person, boarded the boat. She stopped when she noticed that someone was waving oddly at her. She examined the other girl for a moment before coming to a conclusion.

Nope... I don't know her. She's crazy.

The Trainer shrugged inwardly, putting a hand on her Bayleef's shoulder before heading towards the person who had been wildly trying to greet her. She stopped, realizing that this person was definitely a stranger, and slowed to a stop. She glanced cautiously at Bayleef, who seemed intrigued and was cautiously approaching. Rose watched with extreme caution as her Grass-type went to investigate, and was eventually convinced to go up to the other person herself. With a sigh, she carefully approached but didn't say anything.

Bayleef cautiously sniffed the other person from afar as if she were a dog, then took another step closer, her large and red eyes curious.
 
Lacuna stopped waving so hard as she noticed the Trainer get up. The only reason she was going to say hello was because the Trainer looked lonely... or maybe she wanted a change of pace from the seemingly docile journey. But she was no good at reading minds, so she decided to toss that aside for now.

She felt rather startled when the Trainer's Bayleef came close to her, but started giggling quietly after she noticed how friendly the Pokemon must be. At least it wasn't biting.

When the Trainer herself started approaching, Lacuna smiled and leaned back against the nearby wall, staring out at the beach.
 
Nephtys paused as the Espeon trailed after her. She didn't need to have any followers - she had left her herd (and was already regretting it). At least they were relatively intelligent and didn't follow her everywhere. Or well, they did but not at her very heels. "Humans are weak," was her answer, and then she... continued trotting. Great conversational skills right there.

Approaching the city, however, became a problem as she heard a faint melody. It brought to mind the memories of rolling plains, running with her herd, the joy of testing her strength... It called to her, and she found herself almost turning around - but there was that feeling again, of being tugged forward, of some sort of pulse that seemed... familiar. So she continued to step forward. She was a herd leader - she would not be swayed by something like that. And besides, it wasn't as if she was going to rampage through the city and burn things, just go through and find out what was calling her. Finally coming close to the Milotic - her skin shuddered at the sight of the Water-type - she whinnied. "I'm not causing trouble, I'm just going through," she told the serpent calmly, shifting in her eagerness to get away from the water, and fast. And to show how much she didn't want to attack, she turned away from the Pokemon - there was an Arcanine well, and presumably two trainers - and trotted past, though she could have sworn she almost felt a tugging towards them...

Strange hunches, but she was going to go with her first. Besides, it wasn't a smart idea to stay near water. Or Water-types, for that matter.
 
"Step right up, come see the amazing dream machine!" Neure said. the Devon workers already surrounding him were rather unhappy about him having stolen the technology in the first place. He had to admit what he had done to them, and it took quite a talk to convince them it wasn't a bad thing. It took a while just to explain how it worked. Still though, he was drawing a crowd.
"I have invented a machine that does the impossible! it turns dreams into reality! if you dream it while hooked up to this thing, it'll be real! no doubt about it!"
The people in the crowd seemed like they didn't know what to think. This guy was talking crazy, but he was surrounded by all these professional scientists.
"Come on, now," he said, "don't be skeptics! This stuff is scientifically proven! I'm sure it works!"
"I'm afraid he's right," said one scientist (The one who had first invented the ream reader), "all of the technology is functional."

The people started looking less cynical and more curious.
"Yes, it is. I worked hard on it. Anyway, let's get started."
He said this knowing that a TV reporter had arrived. But this wasn't about the attention. All his life, he had always had all of these amazing dreams, and he had always wished to experience one of them in reality, not just his mind.

"Now I need a volunteer."
Somebody raised their hand from somewhere in the audience. "Yes, you in the back."
A teenage girl came up before him. She had red and blue hair, as well as a pair of glasses. "Are you sure you're okay doing this?" he asked her.
She timidly nodded.
"What's your name," he asked her.
"Mera," she said.
"Okay Mera, lay down on this bench," he said, pointing to a metal bench with numerous brain sensors attached to it, and she complied. he stuck all of them on her head.
"Now," he said, "we have a volunteer to get her to fall asleep with us. Professor?"
one of the scientists took out a Pokeball and released a hypno from it.
It approached it, and swung its pendulum from side to side. Instantly she fell asleep.
Time to get to work. Neure went to the computer and set up the program, and started it up. She seemed to be sleeping rather peacefully. The dream showed up on screen. She was running in a race. And the sky was red. He booted up the PC's matter generator (which had parts of a Pokeball on it).
"Alright, in a few seconds, some physical elements of her dream should appear right over there," he said, motioning to a spot by the machine.
Everything was working perfectly. On the inside, Neure was going crazy with anticipation. Some blurry objects started to take shape. A tree, some kind of talking rock, those sort of dreamlike things.

Suddenly something appeared on screen. It was a black cloud with the same face as before. It consumed the dream. Mera screamed and woke up. And suddenly the cloud was real.
 
As first the Rapidash, one of the ones who seemed to have 'led' the strange convoy of Pokemon into the city, approached her, Tanya finished her song and looked down toward the firey unicorn. She could sense both uneasiness and confusion in its being... it was natural for her to be able to read others' feelings. Slithering before the Rapidash as she started to pass by, trying to cut her off, Tanya replied in a deep, resonant voice, "You're lost, aren't you. You're searching for something, but you don't know what it is, or what will happen when you find it." She began to try to surround Nephtys, eyeing the Rapidash with her deep red eyes, ones which seemed to glow almost demonically, circling her with a few feet between them. "Tell me... where do you feel it... emanating from..."

Meanwhile, Spike felt his headache seem to return with a vengeance as the Rapidash approached. He grabbed his head with his hand, feeling it pulse and throb. "Uggh..." He fell to one knee, kneeling down and cringing a little bit. What is this strange feeling... Does that Rapidash have anything to do with it? It slowly started to calm down, as his body became accustomed to it, but he could feel something flowing through him, some kind of energy.
 
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Rose hesitated as the trainer relaxed and began to gaze at the beach, stopping for a moment. But then she slowly approached, watching as if the other Trainer would attack her at any moment. Bayleef looked back at her, wondering why she was being so timid, and then stepped slowly up to the Trainer, the scent of her seeds reaching up. She smiled, tilting her head to one side and closing her eyes contentedly.

"Are you trying to make her perk up?" Rose asked quizzically, and Bayleef nodded, looking out at the ocean as well. She was wagging her stubby tail as if she wanted to see where they were going.
 
Lacuna turned back to the Bayleef. It was being oddly bold, or maybe Lacuna just wasn't scary. Not like it was possible to tell, since Pokemon usually couldn't talk. She had heard of the occasionally Pokemon that could speak a human language though. Although the chance that this one could do so was considerably low.

Lacuna sniffed - there was a spicy sweetness in the air, probably coming from the shoots around the Bayleef's neck. If she remembered correctly, the scent could perk people up - and it was working, of course. Lacuna didn't feel the least bit tired anymore.

"Hi," she said to Rose, in a somewhat hyper manner.
 
As Charlie woke up suddenly, sitting up and hitting his head on the top of the bunk bed that he had been sleeping on. As the fog that came with sleep cleared from his mind he realized it had been a crash that woke him up. As he looked over to the area he thought the sound had come from, Seeing that the ladder had fallen down and caused the noise. As he would then turn himself and drop his legs over the bed. Standing up and grabbing the ladder, Setting it back up against the bunk bed and looking around for his brother. Seeing that he wasn't in the room or the hall he would move out through the open door and down the hall into the kitchen.

"Max? Are you in here? I'm sorry for oversleeping..."

As Charlie would frown slightly, Tears welling up in his eyes as he looked around for his brother. As he would walk through the rest of the house, Looking through the Den, the Bathroom, and the Living Room. Finding not a single trace of his brother he would plop down onto the floor, the tears that had been forming in his eyes flowing out down his face.

((Damn. Vegas kept me away for too long))
 
The audience stared in fear at the black cloud. It gave an evil grin and approached them. everyone slowly backed away.
"What just happened?" asked Mera in confusion.
"I think you had a nightmare," Neure said.
The cloud shot forward to one man. Before he could react, it surrounded him. Everyone stared. The reporter stared and the cameraman filmed.
And suddenly the cloud rose above him. Everyone screamed and ran but the reporter and cameraman, three scientists, Neure, and Mera. Something had happened to the man. his skin had turned purple and he had an unnaturally wide, sharp-toothed grin. His view immediately turned to Mera. She seemed paralyzed.
Neure realized what the man was doing, so he said "Mera, run. Run now."
 
This was just great - now she was being followed by the Milotic. Having her way cut off, she stamped and snorted. "That's true enough. All you want is to ask questions?" she responded, a bit rudely - but she was trying to gauge where she could move to jump over the serpent. Heru nease was greater now, and now that she was staying in place, she could feel the pull tugging her in a different direction as well - though this one was much stronger. Resolving to ignore it, Nephtys tossed her head. "I felt it across the city... and a bit when I met a girl riding a Rapidash." That was it - she didn't need to know about the new feeling at all. Surely it would go away soon...

She looked over at the boy, who was currently kneeling on the docks - he hardly looked healthy at the moment. "I believe your trainer is sick. Maybe you should be taking better care of him, rather than questioning me," she told the Milotic, letting her mane and tail blaze up to reinforce the fact that she did not want to be here. "I didn't leave my herd just to be interrogated by you."
 
Rose looked up a bit in silence as the girl said hello. Maybe she wouldn't bite. She hesitated for a few seconds, and then replied with a slight rise of her hand, "Hello."

Satisfied, Bayleef turned her head and grinned as if to say Rose should be less timid. The trainer made a bit of a grumpy face, but other than that didn't show any signs of distaste. She looked over at the water and stepped up to the railing, resting her arms on it and watching the sea blankly. For once she was actually not being afraid of someone, even after she had said hello. Maybe Bayleef's seeds were helping. But since the salt of the sea overpowered even nearby scents, she couldn't really tell.
 
Lacuna held in a sigh as the other trainer finally said hello. She seemed rather shy - and although the Bayleef's aroma was still in effect, she wanted to avoid scaring the other person.

"In case you were wondering, my name's Lacuna," she said, trying to sound cheerful enough that the other Trainer wouldn't be frightened anymore. Besides, Lacuna wanted to learn her name so that her mind would stop calling her "the other trainer."
 
"Um..." Rose stuttered, still reluctant. Bayleef nosed her open palm encouragingly, though, and the Trainer giggled a little bit. "I'm Rose," she replied, her voice still awfully quiet and bashful. She sighed as she watched the ocean; they were getting further and further away from Cherrygrove now, the point where she almost couldn't see it. But wherever they were going, it sounded fun. She had overheard someone talking about Vermilion -- was that in Kanto? Maybe she could catch some new Pokemon there. She liked her Bayleef, but it would be nice to experience some other species.

As a cool ocean breeze blew by, she felt elated. It felt almost warm for some reason, as if it was summer... but she just liked the refreshing feeling of the cold breeze that pricked her skin ever so slightly before dying down. Feeling a great deal more cheerful, she introduced, "And this is Bayleef. She doesn't bite."
 
Mera ran off as Neure sent out his Rotom without a second thought. "Stop that man!" he said. Rotom did as he was told and shocked the man with an attack. He fainted and his features returned to normal. The cloud was gone from all sight. Nobody knew where it was.

Neure followed Mera to an alley where she was hiding.
"Is it gone?" she asked.
"Well, sort of."
"Sort of?"
"Yes, the guy went back to normal," Neure explained, "but we can't find the cloud."
"oh."
"Listen, you've got to know about this thing. It's a nightmare you had. Nightmares tend to try to follow you, trap you, and get you. If you want to survive, we've got to find a way to stop it. I think I've heard of some scientist down in Kanto who can help us."
Mera was startled by what he was implying.
"Are you saying we have to leave here?" she said.
"I'm afraid we have no other choice."
 
Lacuna felt a bit more satisfied as "the other trainer" introduced herself as Rose. She seemed slightly spaced out, but then again Lacuna did that too, so she probably wouldn't think it odd. Again, she couldn't read minds - but also Rose's thoughts might not interest her. A person's head belonged to them, she guessed...

"The ship's going to a whole different region," she told Rose, even though nobody had asked a question. And then the Bayleef was mentioned.

"I don't see why she would bite," Lacuna said, and brought out the fifth Poke Ball in her belt. "But has she ever wanted to meet new Pokemon?"

Just about spontaneously, she released the Pokemon inside - it was a rounded blue and red ... thing. The only way to describe it was "thing." It was actually a Porygon-Z.

"This is Slipseed," she said, motioning towards the levitating cyber-Pokemon with her hand. "He's really ... slippery."

Already Slipseed was slowly spinning in circles around Bayleef, examining her closely while occasionally rotating his head a full 360 degrees. His (its?) intentions appeared friendly, although it was hard to tell from a half-machine what it was thinking.
 
She gasped with a strangely glazed look in her eyes as she watched the serpentine Pokemon chase after a Rapidash. She felt a bit dizzy... sort of like... hitting that thing with an attack. Hitting both of them and stopping this senselessness...

The girl opened her mouth a few times, then closed it. On and off again, it was... a bit spooking... but nothing seemed to happen. It was like she wanted some sort of energy, that tingling she could feel throughout her many limbs... to come surging out. She gasped and choked for a while, and then seemed to snap out of it when she saw that the guy was having a bit of a moment too.

"He... hello? Are you... okay?"
 
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