Zaps awoke. It was freezing cold. The ground was hard unlike the soft cushiony ground that Zaps had experienced before. What even happened to him?
Oh right. He had battled Steel. He brought Scootaloo to meet Steel and Tufts and Steel had gotten angry. Zaps had battled him and lost. That meant he should have awoken back at the clearing, right? Zaps shook himself off and looked around. He was inside a small cage in weird room. It had a lot of weird beeping machines inside it. A pony with a lab coat stood near a table mixing something in a bowl.
“There.” She muttered. “Done.”
She turned back to Zaps who recognized her as the pony who had questioned him from before, Twilight Sparkle. She smiled at him.
“You’re finally awake! I found you at the edge of the forest and you looked hurt.” She said with a grin. Zaps backed into the cages as she hooked the cage up to a machine. “So if you don’t mind, I would love to take some blood samples,” She held up a needle. “It won’t hurt a bit.”
Twilight levitated a needle towards Zaps who shot out a thundershock attack. The cage absorbed the attack and the machine it was connected to, began to pump out some papers.
“Amazing!” She dropped the needle, rushed over to the machine and ripped the papers from the machine. “The electricity that you create is incredibly powerful!”
“Let me go!” He cried out. “You weird evil purple pony maniac! This is completely unethical!”
“I know this is a little unethical,” She said and raced back over to him with the needle. “But once the Princess sees you, she’ll forgive that, I’m sure. You are a new creature! You might be rare or you might be the cure to a lot of diseases or you might be some new type of mouse or something! I can imagine all the awards I’ll get for finding a new creature! Princess Celestia will be so proud.”
She stabbed the needle into his side and drew some blood. He found himself paralyzed as she backed away with his blood and emptied the needle into a vial. He got up slowly.
“This is amazing!” She said and grinned at him. “Don’t worry, this is all for science.”
“Science. Sure.” Zaps muttered. “Hey, how are you able to understand me anyways?”
“I found this weird rock in the Everfree Forest…” Twilight said as she bumped a weird rock that had two dots for eyes and a crack shaped like upside down smile. The rock was brown and ovalish. For some reason it seemed familiar to Zaps…
“…and I came up to the stream and levitated the rock out of the water. It was pretty interesting looking. It seemed to calling out to me. So I took it home.” Twilight said and looked at the rock sideways. “It makes a great paper weight. Plus, I can understand you now when you talk…”
“Did you touch it?” Zaps asked, realizing in horror what the rock was.
Twilight bumped the rock with her muzzle. “Of course I did. Boop.” She said and hit the rock against her muzzle again.
“No! Twilight, you’re possessed by a Spiritomb,” Zaps said and looked at Twilight who looked down on him with confusion. “You have to snap out of it! This isn’t you!”
“What?” Twilight asked and grabbed her head. “Oh… the headaches are back…”
“Twilight!” Zaps shouted, but Twilight looked up at him with a frown. Her eyes were glowing green and she grinned.
“Twilight isn’t home anymore. It’s just you and me now, Zaps.”
“How do you know my name? Who are you?” Zaps asked. “We’re both Pokémon! We’re practically the same! Why would you try to cage me?”
“You don’t know?” Spiritomb asked. “It’s you and your friend’s faults that I had to possess this stupid pony in the first place!”
“What?” Zaps asked. “How is this mine, Tufts or Steel’s fault?”
“I crashed landed here with you three. I volunteered to help get us back home, but your friends wouldn’t let me help. They claimed they did not trust ghost types. They sent me away by force. I pleaded, for they were all I knew, but no! I was sent away on my own!” Twilight said and held up a hoof and shook it at Zaps. Zaps assumed Spiritomb was shaking a fist at him. “I had to possess this pony to survive. Ponies don’t like strangers here. Twilight Sparkle was a more powerful being than I could imagine. Yet, even with all her magical spells, she could not send me home!”
“I’m sorry. Maybe I could try to convince Steel and Tufts that you’re ok and we could work something out?” Zaps offered. Spiritomb shook Twilight’s head and held up some tool with her magic.
“It’s too late, Zaps. However, I think I know how to get home. With Twilight’s brains, I can convince her to build a magic portal that runs on you and it should, in theory, send me back to my world. Unfortunately, we’ll have to send you home,” Twilight leaned into the cage and said with whisper, “In pieces.”
“You can’t do this Spiritomb! Somebody will find me! You can’t get away with this!” Zaps growled.
“Oh but I can.” Spiritomb said. Twilight’s eyes faded back to normal and gripped her head again.
“Oooo… thank goodness. I’ve been getting a lot of these headaches. Um… so where was I?”
“Fur samples?” Zaps asked nervously.
“Ah yes! Prep for dissection!” Twilight said cheerfully as she held up a sharp looking knife. “Don’t worry, Pikachu, it shouldn’t hurt.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” Zaps screamed as loud as he could. “I’M BEING KEPT IN A BASEMENT BY POSSSESSED PURPLE PONY!”
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“Where am I?” Scootaloo woke up to the sound of wings.
“My place, kiddo.”
Scootaloo looked up to the smiling face of Rainbow Dash. She sat up and saw that she was on Rainbow’s couch. A blanket fell off her back. She must’ve fallen asleep here. Except…
The battle between Pikachu and the other creature flashed through her mind. She jumped off the couch and ran to the door. Rainbow landed in front of her.
“Where do you think you’re going? Do you want to explain the black eye or why somepony dropped you off at my door?” She asked. Scootaloo danced in place. She had to get to Pikachu. That thing, whatever it was, had beat Pikachu up pretty badly. Their battle seemed almost natural for the two. Yet the taller creature was angry. It was angry at Pikachu maybe because Pikachu had brought her to their camp. Pikachu could obviously understand what it was saying so maybe they were from the same place? Where were they from anyways?
“I have to go to Pikachu!” Scootaloo said. “He got beat up by this huge creature who beat up Pikachu and I have to go find Pikachu!”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. You’re hurt, scoots. I’ll uh go look for Pikachu. You stay and rest.” Rainbow said. Scootaloo latched onto her leg in a hug.
“Thanks Rainbow Dash!” She said and instantly let go. “I mean, thanks.”
“No problem, kiddo.” Rainbow said and ruffled her mane. “I’ll be right back. Where did you say that Pikachu was last?”
“The Everfree Forest.” Scootaloo said as she snuggled into Rainbow’s cloud couch. “He looks kind of like a big yellow mouse.”
“Got it.” Rainbow said and left.