Snippet #2069415

Pain. Horrible, excruciating pain. The chemicals didn't care what discomfort they cause, all they knew was that they had a job to do. Not that they had minds or anything, rather they reacted in certain ways to the power of a legendary Pokemon. Normally they absorbed the essence of Pokemon and converted it into something a human could use. They couldn't do that to these targets because of their superior durability, but they did other things still. Instead of extracting the essence from the Legendary Pokemon they inserted the essence of human in them, something the inert forms' bodies didn't expect at all.

The human essence changed the appearance of the two Pokemon and then subdued their powers. The chemicals made them as close to human as they could before they burned out, which was pretty close. The figures, now mostly human, stopped writhing in pain from the restructuring of their bodies as the chemicals dissapated. They rested, finally free of their torment and, unfortunately, their memories.

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The boy opened his eyes. The leaves above him were blurred for a moment before coming into focus. How did I get here? Why am I here? Where am I? Who am I? he wondered. He slowly sat up, his body unfettered by anything except leaves. That seemed wrong, though, so he wrapped himself in a filmy black substance that lay beneath him (he didn't know it, but some chemicals had gone out of him and became the slightly sticky sheet that he now wrapped around him).

"H... Hello?" he queried, trying out his voice. A sudden thought hit him. If he did meet someone out where ever he was what was he going to call himself? He couldn't say something like, "I'm Me." That would be silly. He rolled some sounds around in his head and tried speaking some out loud. He eventually settled with calling himself Derrin Palas. "I'm Derrin Palas," he said out loud.

He crawled out from beneath the bush he was under and stood up. His stomach rumbled, the sound accopanied by an unpleseant sensation. It seemed like he was going to answer his stomach before his other questions. He reached up and picked a pale pink berry from a nearby tree and began to eat it. It was sweet! He munched on berries, content for the time being.