Chapter one

It was a brand new day in Little Shock Town. The peaceful town residents were walking around, and in some cases flying around, living out their daily routines. At the entrance to the town, a small figure had arrived.

It was clearly a Pokémon, one that somewhat resembled a Pachirisu. However, it was a different Pokémon altogether. Its facial features mimicked a Pachirisu, such as the eyes and nose and yellow cheek patches. That's where the resemblance to a Pachirisu ended. The Pokémon ears were rounded in shape and black in coloration, with yellow and white sections of coloration in the inside of its ears. It sported a vaguely hood-like patterning of black around its head, with a spiky extension of the pattern above its face. The tiny creature also possessed winglike, yellow-colored flaps connected to its three-fingered arms. Lastly, its feet were white-colored and fairly small and its black-colored tail was a jagged shape somewhat like that of a Raichu.

It took a long glance around the town before heading further into it. The Pokémon was heading in the direction of the town hall, which was positioned at the south end of the town. It was obviously new to the area as it was frequently looking at the directional signs posted all over. Eventually, the small Pokémon arrived outside a large, two-story building. A huge sign at the start of the path leading up to the doors told the creature that it had arrived at the town hall of Little Shock in big bold writing. Without a second delay, it headed up the small path and entered the building.

Once inside, the Pokemon walked across the smooth brown-tiled floor and up to the receptionist. The receptionist was a female Kirlia, busily typing on a computer keyboard. Remaining silent, the flying squirrel Pokemon held up a little slip of paper for the receptionist to see. She glanced away from her computer screen and noticed the tiny slip.

"The mayor's office is upstairs. Just head along the corridor, around the corner at the end and you'll see the door leading into the mayor's office at the end of the next corridor." The Kirlia said quickly before turning her attention back to her typing.

Following the receptionist's specific directions, the Pokemon easily found the double doors that led into the office of the Mayor. He opened the doors and walked into the room where a second receptionist awaited, this one being the mayor's personal Sunflora secretary, Flora. Unlike the Kirlia, Flora had a cheery and welcoming complexion. She looked up at the Pokemon upon his entry.

"Hello there!" Flora happily exclaimed, "The mayor is ready to see you now. Go on right ahead."

Still remaining completely silent, the Pokemon headed through the second set of double doors, entering the office of Mayor Winslow Furry. The mayor of Little Shock Town was a middle-aged Furret, busily shuffling through some papers on his desk. As the Pokemon approached closer, the mayor stopped what he was doing and looked up at him.

"I've been expecting you." The Furret said, "You wish to have special accommodation in my town, correct?"

"That's right, sir!" The Pokemon finally said, "My name is Emonga, and if it isn't too much trouble, I need the house to have features for my disabled mother."

"That is easily done with no extra cost." Mayor Furry said, taking out a pipe, "What type of disability does your mother have?"  

"Well," Emonga began, "It's kind of complicated, sir."

"How so?" enquired the Mayor.

Emonga hopped up on-top of the desk. "One that needs your personal assistance, Mr Mayor." He responded before swiftly placing a small, silver microchip on the forehead of Mayor Furry.

Before he could re-act, Winslow felt his very mind go numb. He was now unable to think, his mind was becoming blank and unresponsive. Emonga chuckled evilly as he observed the mayor's eyes transform into plate white emotionless ones.

"Now that you also have a disability, you can listen to what my, ahem, mother has to say to you." Emonga said, taking out a small tape recorder. "I know you two will get along very well."

The Mayor gave no response due to being in a deep hypnotic trance. Emonga placed the tape recorded on the deck next to them and hit the play button.

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Meanwhile at the human populated town of Barton, Ashley Hudson was relaxing at her home with her boyfriend, Dark. Ever since she found out that she was pregnant, Ashley had been taking everything easy. Dark, as well as the girl's team of Pokémon were more than happy to assist her in her needs.

"Would you like a cup of my special coffee, Miss Ashley?" asked Clarice, Ashley's coffee-brewing Clefairy.

Ashley smiled, "Yes, please Clarice," she replied, "I could do with a cup."

"Hold on!" Dark suddenly said, "Are you sure it's wise to drink coffee while you are pregnant, Ash?" he enquired, concerned for her well-being.

"Dark, I am pretty sure just one cup of coffee will harm the baby in any way." Ashley told him.

"I'll make sure to leave out the sugar when I make up coffee, Mr Dark, so don't worry yourself!" Clarice informed the human boy before walking into the kitchen.

Dark sighed and sat down next to his beloved girlfriend, wrapping his arm around her body affectionately. Ashley let out a giggle as she leaned towards her boyfriend, placing her head on his warm chest.

"Hey, Dark…" she began to say.

"Yeah?"

"Ever since I trained with my Amazonian ancestor, I've always wanted to try out my strength on a bad guy," she started to tell Dark, "The only time I displayed my strength was when I moved that boulder blocking our escape when we were stranded at Mt Silver."

"Ashley, you can't, you are pregnant," Dark informed her, frowning a little at his girlfriend's words; "You'll have to take it easy."

"Oh, Dark, it's not that I don't appreciate what you and my Pokémon are doing for me, it's just I expected my life to be more active since I gained my new-found strength. Allie is out there, and if she can do it then so can I." said the girl.

"I know, Ash…" said Dark, giving Ashley a comforting hug, "Tell you what, on my way home from work today, I'll stop by the video store and rent out that movie you've always wanted us to watch together."

"But I thought that you hated romance movies, Dark." Said Ashley, confused by this.

"Normally I do, but as long as I am with you, Ashley, I don't care." Dark answered, giving off a warm, loving smile.

Ashley returned the loving smile, as well as giving her boyfriend a quick peck on his cheek. She may have been unable to demonstrate her Amazon abilities due to her pregnancy, but as long as Dark was with her, she didn't mind as much as she once did.  

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Elsewhere, the sneaky electric flying-squirrel, Emonga was now in a new location, far away from any civilisation. The deep, dark forest he was now fearlessly strolling through was known as Cresnack; a place few Pokémon explored. The foreboding, half dead trees hung forward at an angle above, blocking the view of the darkened sky. The grass was a dark green and rough underfoot, almost sharp enough to cut through uncovered feet like paper. This tough terrain was easily bypassed by Emonga, who simply gliding over it.  He eventually came to a small, desolated shack in a clearing no bigger than the shack itself.  Emonga landed by the door and with a gentle shove pushed it open. The rusted hinges made a piecing squeaking sound as the door slowly swung open.

The Pokémon headed into the partially empty abode and straight into an equally empty room. A large decaying brown wardrobe covered in dust and cobwebs stood at the other side of the room, placed centre up against the back wall. Emonga walked over to it, opened it and stepped inside, closing the door behind him soon after. He tapped on the cold, hard surface of the wardrobe two times. At first nothing seemed to happen. Suddenly, the ground under Emonga's feet began to vibrate slightly as if it was trying to support his weight.  It then started to slowly descend into darkness, taking the fearless Emonga with it. As it turned out, the bottom of the wardrobe was actually a small, fully-operational lift. It took the flying squirrel Pokémon into the hidden tunnels underneath the old, abandoned forest shack.

As soon as the descending platform came to a complete and sudden stop, Emonga hopped of it and headed through the long tunnels. It wasn't long before a large and sturdy metal door stood in his path. A small silver box was positioned to the left of the door, placed low enough for Emonga to easily reach.  Emonga walked over to the box and stood perfectly still. No sooner then he got close to it, blue light shoot out from the box, covering his eyes in a non-blinding blue glow.

"Retinal scan complete! Identity confirmed and approved!" said a robotic female voice coming from the metallic box, "Welcome, Emonga."

The strange blue light retracted back into the box. The huge door then opened up, allowing Emonga passage into a new and much larger room. Monitors, displaying various images of the outside world were placed all around the room; each one high up on the metal-coloured walls. A large control panel, decorated with millions of multi-coloured buttons and levers took up a large portion of the room. Placed right next to the control panel was a dark blue swivel chair, and sitting on the chair was none other than the villainess mad scientist Dr Solaria Clefarious.

"I am back, mother!" Emonga said cheerfully.

"Were you successful, Emonga?" Clefarious asked, not bothering to turn around in her chair to face him.

"You bet I was, mother!" The electric-squirrel exclaimed, "Mr Mayor didn't see it coming!"

"Did you place the tape recorder?" The Clefairy the asked, remaining in the same position.

Emonga nodded, "Uh-huh! I sure did, mother! I stayed with it until it was over and then destroyed it like you said to!" he told the scientist.

"Good. Now it's time to begin stage two of my plan!" explained Clefarious, finally swirling around in her chair to face Emonga, "Well, what are you waiting for, Emonga? You know what you should do next!"

"I sure do, mother!" Emonga replied, smiling widely, "You want me to-"

"Do NOT tell me, you simpleton!" Clefarious snapped, cutting Emonga off in mid-sentence, "Go and do what you are supposed to do and do not waste any more of my time!"

"Sorry, mother!" said Emonga, "I am going right now!" Without a seconds delay, the flying squirrel Pokémon darted out of the hi-tech room, returning to the underground tunnels.

Dr Clefarious sighed to herself and turned back around in her chair to face the control panel. She pressed a blue button which opened up a secret door in the far corner of the room. Clefarious jumped off her chair and walked through the newly opened door and into a much smaller room of the underground base. On the other end of the room was a large, circler machine which had a similar appearance to the robot-making one she had in the past before it was destroyed. Strapped to the machine by its arms and legs was a bipedal Ninetales. Placed on the middle of the Pokémon vixen's forehead was a small silver microchip, the same type of one that Emonga placed on Mayor Furry's head. Like the Furret mayor, the Ninetales was in a deep trance.

"Now is a good time as any to test out my new roboticizer!" The wicked Clefairy said to herself.  "But first…"

Clefarious took a remote control from her lab coat pocket and pressed one of the buttons. A long thin mechanical hand dropped down from the ceiling and took the microchip off the Ninetales head, giving it to Clefarious to pocket. Once the chip was removed from the Ninetales forehead, she returned to her senses.  

"Urrgg," groaned the Ninetales, her eyes becoming normal once more, "Where am I? This doesn't look like the country club."

"Welcome…Victoria Renarde, isn't it?" The Clefairy scientist questioned, "Please excuse me, while you were under the influence of my mind control technology I probed your memory and read what I needed to know."

"Who the heck are you?" snarled the Ninetales, "I demand you release me from this absurd contraption this instant!"

"I am afraid I can't do that, Victoria. You see, after I had to re-build my roboticizer after the incidence at my previous laboratory, I've been looking for the right guinea pig to test out my new one." Clefarious stated evilly.  

"Guinea pig?!" exclaimed the Ninetales in sheer fury, "Do you even know who I am?!"

Dr Clefarious reached for the lever on the machine to activate it. "You are just one of those wealthy Pokémon who look down at the likes of me."  A wicked grin spread across the face. "In a matter of seconds, you'll be something much more tolerable."

The evil scientist pulled down the lever all the way, starting up the machine. A loud humming sound began and pretty soon Victoria found herself being struck by a powerful force from inside the machine. It felt like nothing she had felt before; it was like being electrocuted but there was something very different about it. The force seemed like it was attacking her insides rather than her outsides. She screamed as the mysterious pain brought on by the machine intensified.

"Arrgggghhh!" she screamed, "St-stop this! P-p-please!!"

Ignoring the Ninetales painful pleas, Clefarious simply smirked evilly. She enjoyed observing her sinister contraptions at work. All of a sudden, Victoria felt her whole body become very stiff. Even her numerous tails refused to swish about like they used to. Her screaming came to a complete haut, being replaced by feeble gasps. Starting from her frozen toes, her fur colour began to dim, eventually turning a light metallic grey. Even though Victoria couldn't move her eyes to look down, she could feel she was going through an abnormal change. Her now grey fur started to shrink, sinking into her rigid skin.  As her eye pupils began to shrink to be no bigger than pinpricks, all she could do was let out a silent groan. Her skin was the next to go through a change. Still retaining their original colouring, her skin texture changed from being as stiff as a plank to become pure metal. By the time her body had been transformed, Victoria's eyes were a clear white, lacking pupils. Her head quickly became metal, replacing every shred of skin she once had. The fluffy crest on top of her head was the only part of her remarkable fur that didn't blend into her skin. It quickly became a strong and sturdy metal, making the robotic transformation progress complete.  Her body was not the only part of her to go through a bizarre transformation. The brain of the Ninetales had also become metal, now acting more like a CPU than an actual biological brain.

Clefarious chuckled evilly and pressed another button on her remote, freeing Victoria from the bonds of the machine. The Ninetales was no longer inflexible; she dropped down on her one knee as soon as she was released.

"State your name." the wicked Clefarious requested.

"Name not found." The robot vixen answered; her voice dull and robotic in tone.

"Your name is Robot_K-038!" Clefarious told her, smirking evilly as she said so. "You were created by me, Doctor Solaria Clefarious, to serve as my mindless, but loyal robot. You were not programmed with any free will to call your own. You were programmed to listen to me and only me."

"I am Robot_K-038." The Ninetales robot repeated, "I was created by Dr Clefarious to serve as her mindless and loyal robot. Robot_K-038 was not programmed with free will. Robot_K-038 was programmed to only listen to the commands issued by Dr Clefarious."

"Hhhmm, I can't say that I approve of the third person dialect, but I like the extra dialogue you came up with." Dr Clefarious said, rubbing her chin. "Robot_K-038, scan your memory database and report what you find! Make sure to exclude the file that holds your programming."

"Affirmative!" spoke the mindless robotic figure that was once Victoria. Her eyes started to glow blue. A few moments later she spoke once more, "Memory file of one Victoria Renarde found. Open file?"

"No. Delete it."

"Deleting file…" The robot's eyes glew blue once more, but for a shorter period of time than before. "Memory file deleted."

"Good work, Robot_K-038. Enter sleep mode! I shall wake you up when I require your services!" The lab-coat wearing Clefarious ordered.

"Affirmative, doctor." K-038 responded before closing her eyes, shutting down her systems. The robot remained in a upright standing position.

Dr Clefarious chuckled once more and walked out of the room, switching off the lights simply by clapping her paws together. She sat down in her swivel chair, turning herself around to face the huge monitor before her.

"It's time to make a call to my contact." She said to herself, pressing a green button on the control panel in-front of her, switching on the monitor screen.

To be continued!