Chapter 5: Gotta Dance
Iceberg Lab
Main Lab
"Pika. Pikachu!"
"Nope. Still off a bit." A loud whack rang out through the lab. "Alright, try again."
"Explain to me what you're doing here, Periment," Jackal said with a bored look on his face. Experiment and Shock had been going at this for about an hour now since the issue with the walrus and Jackal was finished. Experiment set down the hammer and laughed.
"We're trying to get this translator running. It works to some extent but it doesn't give consistent and accurate translations. Shock and his friend somehow managed to get it working even better but it still needs work," he said as he examined the other device Shock and Archimedes had made. It was a three foot long rod with a bulb at one end. Dotted around the bulb were little buttons which Experiment did not want to touch. He'd had too many encounters with a nuts Diamond Dog who had gotten him to test out inventions before. Granted, he signed a waiver, but he didn't want his mane and tail burned off again.
"How is it inaccurate?"
"Put it this way. It'd give your mother and grandmother heart attacks with the inaccurate translations. Shock, can you hand me the wrench?" Experiment cranked at a bolt again while Jackal sat there with the imagery.
"And you started on this... when?" He asked.
"Same day that the Pokemon arri- Ah, nearly forgot!" He dropped the wrench on Shock's tail on accident and ran over to the computer. As he began frantically typing things in, he didn't notice a certain Pikachu muttering murderously.
Jackal leaned over to read what the translator was saying and winced. Somehow he got the feeling that wasn't a mistranslation.
"So..." Jackal began but he was interrupted again.
"Not now, I'm working on something fairly important." Experiment kept typing away and soon the image of a Pikachu took form on the screen alongside stuff like a name, height, weight and footprint... He'd grabbed them while Shock slept last night.
"What is that..."
"Well, it's an encyclopedia of Pokemon. I'm not certain of how many different types there are, so I'm constructing this. Hopefully it will come in handy for when I come across more varieties. But... there is a problem."
"What's the problem, prof?" He stepped closer, marveling at the device. "This thing looks pretty amazing to me."
"And it's a giant freaking computer. I'll have to write the stuff down that I find out and add it into this later. And in this snowy wasteland you can guess where that would be a problem."
"Right. Wet paper isn't fun. You have no idea how many times that I was sent on a mission for Profiteur and the rain ruined the message he was sending."
Experiment stopped typing abruptly and turned to Jackal. "Right. We need to talk about that. Come on." He started leading Jackal towards the kitchen. Before he shut the door he levitated Shock and Archimedes out. "No sugar for you!"
Shock glared at him again before walking off towards the room where the other Pokemon were still sleeping. They hadn't woken up at all but Red Cell said she had an idea of how she could help. He hopped up on the bed while he waited for her to start on her plan and curled up next to Teacher.
Back in the lab, Red Cell was using the electricity to charge up her self-proclaimed medigun and Heavy was watching nervously. As she unplugged it and began walking towards the sleeping area, he followed her as well. Not wanting anything to happen to the fluffy Pokemon... well mostly fluffy. The frog really wasn't.
Red Cell flipped a switch and started aiming. After a few seconds, a few tendrils of red energy extended towards the rat. As they made contact the injuries began vanishing slowly. Its skin returned to a normal color, the breathing rate sped up from its slow state, and it grew warmer. Slowly its eyes creaked open and when they fully did, its head shot up with a "Rattata?"
"So... This verks on Pokemon? That is good to know. Now zen! Let us continue with the others!" She grinned and turned on the medigun, aiming it once again.
-Zap!-
"Froa?"
-Zap!-
"Fen!"
-Zap!-
"Pika!"
-Zap!-
"Kangaaaaaa!"
The last one caused Red Cell and Heavy to draw back and Shock to jolt awake. The baby that Experiment had rescued burst into tears upon waking up. The other Pikachu that Shock had been sleeping next to stretched out and started patting the baby who visibly calmed down, looking up at her.
"Pika pi... Pikachu?"
"Kanga?"
"Heavy wish that translator was working." He muttered, scratching the back of his head with a hoof.
"Und zis is vere we cheat." Red Cell grinned, her horn glowing with a spell. In a few seconds a glowing aura surrounded the Pokemon, right as Shock got up and padded over to the baby Pokemon as well.
He glanced at Red Cell and Heavy before turning back to the baby.
"Who are you?" The baby squeaked and Heavy nearly had a heart attack from the cutes.
"My name is Thinker. You're in a safe place now."
Red Cell quickly pulled out a notepad and began scribbling notes as Shoc- Thinker began speaking with the baby. One of the things she noted was he gave off an air of authority but it wasn't oppressive, it was more gentle. Like he'd had experience dealing with babies before. Who knew? He might have, she just had no clue when.
2 hours later
"Well, I'm glad we got that all straightened out," Experiment said as he and Jackal left the kitchen, both with copious amounts of frosting on their lips.
"It's a bit better than having you suspect me... how did you manage to stockpile that many donuts without them going bad?" Jackal asked.
"Same way I hid them from Shock and Archimedes, airtight containers." He stopped as he saw Red Cell watching something... with her medigun strapped to her back.
"What's going on?" He asked and her hoof flew to her mouth in a shushing manner. She then pointed over towards the table near the translator. Experiment slowly turned his head over there and Jackal did the same. Sleeping in a little pile on the table was Shock, Archimedes and the other Pokemon they had rescued. Right in the center of the pile, where the most heat was concentrated, was the little baby Pokemon and the frog.
"When did this happen?" He whispered.
"I... I voke them up with ze medigun and the baby began crying. Sh- Thinker started talking with him for a bit and the other Pikachu helped calm him down... We waited for you and Jackal to finish talking because they'd found something out but the baby became tired and fell asleep on Thinker's back. Thinker curled up around him and the other Pokemon followed suit... Heavy had a heart attack but he'll be fine."
Experiment nudged the unconscious stallion with a hoof. "How did you understand them anyways? And who's Thinker?"
"I may have cheated a little bit. I used a translation spell when Thinker voke up to listen in on their conversation. And as for who Thinker is... It's Shock's real name."
"What did you find out?"
"Vell first," She pointed at the baby, "Zis is a baby Kangaskhan, or at least that's what Thinker called it, and normally zey do not leave their mother's pouch until they are a teenager. But zis one's mother was taken from it and it vas by sheer luck it wandered here."
"Where was it before this?"
"The Crystal Empire." Both Experiment and Red Cell turned to face Jackal, who was trying to avoid their eyes. "It was in the Crystal Empire."
"Und how do you know zis?" Red Cell asked, raising Heavy's minigun quietly.
"I was there. With Profiteur's other merc that he works with. I was off the clock, trying to get something to eat when I saw him. He went for both of them but the mother caught sight that it was extremely snowy outside of the castle town. She took a chance, set the baby down and nudged it in the direction of the exit before she turned to face him. I guess she hoped that he wouldn’t be able to track it out there."
"Wait wait wait," Experiment raised a hoof, "Where were the guards during all this?"
"When the Pokemon appeared in massive numbers, it caused a ton of confusion. I was lucky to catch him attacking the Kangaskhan but I doubt anypony else did. The guards were actually clustering near the castle because a giant blue crocodile was attacking. I also caught sight of a flaming monkey as well. The baby stumbled towards the exit and vanished into the snow... just as Sorcery Sword knocked out the Kangaskhan. After that he tied it up and hauled it to Canterlot through the train system. I doubt the guards cared. Apparently for a bit they were trying to catch the Pokemon, thinking they were just animals and threats to boot. If anything they might have thought he was doing their job for them. Nopony knows Sorcery is involved with Profiteur and most ponies don't know that Profiteur is actually corrupt besides those in his sector of the city."
"He's got a sector?" Experiment raised a hoof to his chin thoughtfully, "This could be troublesome then."
"Not officially. But the ponies in that area are all in debt to him. Through blackmail or financially. He's good at actually keeping them in debt as despicable as that is."
"And with the Pokemon arriving... Oh, this isn't good. We'll have to get Sho- er, Thinker, that'll take a bit to get used to, awake so we can ask just what Kangaskhans are capable of. But... How exactly are we going to do that? He's out like a rock." Experiment prodded Thinker experimentally and Jackal looked at the rod that the two Pikachu had created in their sugar induced rage.
"Say... what does this thing do anyways?" He reached out towards the button on the top of the rod.
Experiment turned around and his eyes shrunk to tiny dots. "No, wait! Stop!" Too late. Jackal hit the button and a yellow core appeared at the top... at the same time a catchy tune began to play causing everyone in the room, including the Pokemon it just woke up, to perk up and start bobbing their heads involuntarily at the beat.
As the music progressed their head bobbing increased until it hit full-swing... and caused them to begin dancing with Jackal still holding the rod. What was strange was that none of the ponies knew how to dance but they were still somewhat competent.
And then things got even more hectic when a gigantic purple biped with a huge mouth burst through one of the walls, did a cartwheel, and started dancing along with them. Its moves were somewhat like disco but it seemed to be going along with the beat, seeming to enjoy it and making sounds as it danced. "Lou-ou-dred! A Lou-ou-dred!"
"Turn it off!" Experiment shouted.
"I'm trying! But I can't reach the button!" Jackal tried flailing his hoof to reach the top button but missed entirely and hit another switch causing a medley to begin playing. And of course this made their dancing styles change each time the medley changed, as did the tempo to fit the new theme. What was interesting was how the Pokemon were dancing. Each time the style changed, theirs would as well. But they mimicked one another so that they were still dancing the same. The ponies weren't so lucky, the music was literally forcing them to dance the way that they normally would to this style... and it wasn't a pretty sight to say the least.
As the song finally ended, the core shrunk back to the rod and everypony, and Pokemon, fell to the ground panting heavily from the unexpected physical exercise... well, all except the purple Pokemon that was still dancing with no beat. It was dancing to the more tropical tune still it seemed. "Loudred, Lou. Loudred, Lou..." It suddenly realized that there was no music and posed with its finger pointed to the ceiling. "Loudred! Lou... Loudred!" Its eyes flickered around at the faces pointed at it. "Loudred?"
Experiment broke away from looking at the Pokemon, who he now assumed to be called Loudred, to examine the hole in the wall. "Geez, why does this always happen? Last time it was a Diamond Dog tunneling through on accident." He sniffed the air and winced. Thinker had wandered over as well. Upon smelling the stench he hopped on Experiment's back and used his mane as a way to block out the scent.
"We need to block that up soon... That's a sewer alright," He quickly sniffed again and grimaced at the Loudred.
Red Cell quickly put a clip on her nose to plug it and glared at Experiment. “Vhy do you have a sewer line right next to your lab?”
“It’s not… right next to it. I thought it was quite a distance away. Looks like he blasted straight through at least a kilometer of dirt to get here, as well as my wall.” Experiment poked his head in the new hole in the wall, careful to avoid breathing through his nose. “He also tunneled up a bit. Just how good of hearing does this thing have? Regardless, these labs are so expansive I think I tunneled through a couple sewer lines on accident while having ponies help me build it. We had go around them multiple times.”
“Ve are going to touch on vhy you need such a large lab later.” Red Cell said.
“Fine, we’ll need to give that thing a bath first.” Experiment jabbed at the Loudred who nodded in response.
Red Cell also nodded in agreement and heard a new voice speak up, “Owwww… I don’t think my teacher ever pushed P.E. on us that badly…” She looked down to see the Rattata curled up in exhaustion. As she tilted her head, he peered up and jumped a little before realizing she was the one who helped him earlier. He tried uncurling but… well he was still in pain. “T-thanks again for earlier.”
She smiled, not the smile that a doctor would give to a patient, but more the smile that a mad scientist would have. Admittedly she never had the kind smile, not even as a filly. “It vas my job,” she said, failing to see that her smile was scaring the shit out of the Rattata.
“Red Cell!” She peered over to see Experiment glaring at her.
“Eh heh. My apologies,” she turned back to the scared Rattata, “My name is Doctor Red Cell. Vat vould your name be?”
The Rattata took a deep breath, uncurling himself in the process, and looked up at her. It was slightly evident that he was trying to avoid panicking. He was suppressing some shivers. Though that could also be attributed to the fact that he just went through at least a half-hour of impromptu dancing.
“W-well. My name is Joey… but I wasn’t a Rattata when I went to sleep last night,” he said.
Experiment overheard and walked over. “Last night? Lad, it’s been a good five days since Pokemon appeared in Equus.”
He flinched back at this, the name of the world and the fact that Pokemon were all over said world, but most of all the time that he was out. “W-was I… How did-” He started to say.
Experiment cut him off by lightly petting his back, “Well, you had the misfortune to appear in the frozen wastes outside of the Crystal Empire. You weren’t the only one to be found out there. The only one that wasn’t suffering from the extreme cold was Thinker here and he didn’t come out of it unscathed either- OW!” He flailed his hoof at the Rattata that had now bitten into it and was hanging on.
Apparently Joey was high-strung, understandably enough, and the Rattata instincts that were now a part of him commanded him to chomp.
Red Cell started laughing hysterically but cut off when she noticed Heavy wasn’t nearby. She looked around and caught him near the stairs taking ai- “No Heavy! Put zat down now! Don’t you dare fire zat in here!”
Neither of them remembered to tell Joey about Arceus’ message that he missed.
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YOU MEAN THE JOEY WHO'S RATTATA IS IN THE TOP PERCENTAGE OF RATTATAS?
I LOVE SHORTS THEY'RE COMFY AND EASY TO WEAR
Guess who showed up in Everfree!
5904455 *Checks list* Ah you got them in? Nice!
5904557 They don't have any actual lines yet because they're with Screwball and she doesn't speak mon. So I have a Pikachu, and a berry that says "Pikachu"
Also I created the first chaos ship...
5935345 I've seen that. Hilarious little video.
Nice bit of continuity.
Loudred is more blue than purple, unless it was shiny?
Joey seems surprisingly unsurprised by everything.