I am SO sorry for taking so long to get this next chapter up, but here it is! I hope you guys all enjoy it!
Chapter 11: Clues Are Beginning to be Uncovered Once Again...
We all slowly kept stepping back until our backs hit the wall behind us, which we all pressed up against. The Pokémon surrounding us looked at us with the most evil glares I had ever seen, and they snarled and hissed at the same time. My breathing became heavy and came in short gasps, as I tried to figure out what to do. But all of a sudden a shrill call came, which was so loud it shook my bones, and I looked around quickly while I tried to figure out where the call had come from.
"Halt!" The call came again. I had a bad gut feeling that I knew who had sounded the alarm. It had to have been the Evil Absol himself.
All the strange looking Pokémon quickly followed this order as they scrambled to stand up straight before their master came before them. Right then was when my fears were confirmed - the Evil Absol himself leapt down from somewhere from the ceiling, and stood in front of me, with a stare that seemed to penetrate deep into my soul.
"So you decided to show up, did you?" He snarled at me, with a smirk. "This is just what I predicted... you are fools, which I am sure you knew that already, didn't you?" He said that last line so close to my face that he spit on me, and his breath reeked of nothing I had ever smelled before.
"What do you want with us and Junior?" I said, trying to keep my cool, but at the same time getting ready to fight if I had to.
"What do I want, you ask?" The way he talked was making me get more furious every second. "Why should I tell you? What would I gain from that?"
"You need to give me back my Junior!" Tropius called, looking scared but determined all at the same time. "What have you done to him?!"
"What have I done to poor Junior? Why, I have just done some... experiments on him." After finishing his last sentence he laughed a deep, hideous laugh.
"What kinds of experiments?!" Joltik said from Swoobat's shoulder. I was surprised that he was being so brave as to stand up to this big, bad Absol.
"Why should I tell you, you little pest? I can squash you into a pulp if I wanted to! Which I just may consider doing..." He said this while stepping closer to Swoobat, and looking at Joltik with his evil eyes ablaze with a strange evilness almost emanating from them. He began to pick up his paw as if to swipe at Joltik so he could crush him, when I quickly used to move Sucker Punch to stop him.
"Leave Joltik alone!" I screamed as I thrust towards him with my attack, which hit him suddenly, as he hadn't been expecting it.
"Why you little brat!" He snarled. "Don't you dare mess with me, or else I will send my minions to defeat you!"
"I am not scared of your so called "minions". I want you to tell me what you want with us!" I said, in the middle of a fighting stance.
"Fine. Come with me, and I will tell you what I have to say." He began walking away from us, towards another room of the building. I was astonished that it had been so easy to get him to listen to us. Almost a little too easy... but we began to follow him anyways.
"Sky..." Swoobat whispered to me as we walked down a large hall, filled with all sorts of weapons and strange pictures. "I... I am scared. I want to get out of here..."
I looked at the poor bat, who was shaking from head to toe. She was shaking so much that poor Joltik was having a hard time staying on her shoulder. I felt bad for her, so I decided I should try to comfort her.
"Swoobat... it will be OK. I promise... just stick with me, alright?" I said, forcing a smile, when I was cut off by the Evil Absol snarling once again at us.
"Shut up! We are here..." his eyes sparkled with even more evil then before, as we stood at the doorway of a huge room. My mouth hung open as I looked around it, when I noticed a gigantic machine in the middle of it. I couldn't tell what it was... it was so strange that there was really no way to describe it.
"Now, come on in, don't be shy..." He said in a false pleasant voice. "I should first tell you my name however... I couldn't help but notice that you have just been calling me the 'Evil Absol', which is pretty rude when you think about it, don't you say?"
I didn't say anything, but just slowly entered the room, and sat down on a luxurious rug on the floor that he had gestured us to sit onto.
"Well, a little nervous, aren't we? I can tell." He then snickered at us. "But anyways, my name is DarkMist. I -"
"That isn't a very scary name, you know... it is actually kinda cute." My Pidgeot said mockingly to DarkMist. I quickly mouthed "shush Pidgeot!", but it was too late. The damage of her proclamation was already done.
"Don't you dare every speak to me that way, you feathered rat!" He said, walking up to her so close that he spat on her face while he talked.
Pidgeot just gulped and didn't say anything, as she quickly shut her beak.
"That's better. Now, where were we? I could tell you about my tragic backstory, but I will spare you the time. Aren't I nice?" He then began laughing at his own "joke".
As he laughed I just thought in my head, "this guy is a real weirdo, that's for sure..."
I then felt the urge to speak up to him about something that had been on my mind for a while now. "DarkMist, what I really want to know is what you want with us. Just answer that, please!"
"Aw, you said please... how polite... for a human." At the word "human", I froze on the spot. How did he know I was a human trapped in a Pokémon's body? Did he know even more about this? Did he have something to do with all of this in the first place?! I just spaced out and gulped loudly for a moment, when reality quickly came back to me.
"Yes, I see that you are surprised that I know the truth about you." He had a horrible smile on his face has he looked at me menacingly. "You may be wondering if I know even more about this, and the answer is simply yes. I do. I probably know more then you do in fact. Humans are so stupid anyways, which is proven right now, while you just stare at me and don't even say anything back while I just try to have a decent conversation. In fact -"
"Shut up!" I said, practically screaming at him. "You are dodging my questions you coward! You are despicable! How much do you know about me, and what happened to me? Give me answers or I will fight you!"
"Fight me?" He said, practically mocking me. "Not a big deal, I could beat a idiotic human like you any day. As I said before, you aren't the brightest of creatures... Pokémon are far smarter then you. But you did know that already, right?"
"I don't care what you say to me, you are still dodging my questions! Hurry up and cut to the chase and spill the beans. What do you know? Tell me now!" I said, getting more and more furious by the moment. Joltik, Swoobat, Tropius, and my Pokemon just watched on, shuddering, and not knowing what to say or do.
"Alright, alright, I will. Maybe..." He then laughed his hideous laugh once again, and it reverberated throughout the room.
"Just. Start. Talking." I said through gritted teeth, staring at him with a look of steel.
"Alright... well, let me just start with this - I have been watching you. Everything you do, ever since you arrived in this world, I have watched you do. I have cameras set up all over, by your little home, in the fields, by the woods. Everywhere at all times." I could tell that he was enjoying this very much as he went along.
"Where's proof?" Was all I said back. I was shocked at this... it was creepy, horrible, and unsettling all at the same time.
"Right here." He said, pushing a button on the desk in the middle of the room, which a huge TV then came out of. It quickly turned on, and all sorts of random footage from my adventures while I had been in this world began playing on it. When I sat in the field looking up at the stars, when I met Swoobat, when we ate berries for the first time together. There was even footage of us looking in the woods, trying to find Junior with Tropius. But as I looked closer at the footage, I could see the evil Marill, Chatot, and even sometimes DarkMist himself in the shadows watching us as we went about our business. I was shocked, and didn't know what to say. I looked at Swoobat, Joltik, and my Pokémon, and I could tell that they were just as horrified as I was.
"Where did you get the idea to do this to us? Where?! Answer me!" I said, staring into DarkMist's evil eyes.
"This is as far as I will go to tell you... for now. Meanwhile, how about you have some time to get comfortable in your new home?" He began laughing as he once again pushed a button, and I began to feel the floor underneath of us give way, and we began sliding down some crazy tunnel into the dark depths underneath this retched building.