Fandom A Chance Meeting at Ilex Forest

[AmethystRoze]

"Right, I guess it cant be avoided." Se said shaking her head.

…...

"Probably a gardevoir was your mom, and as for you dad who knows."

"But we don't know that! He's probably not even adopted."

 

[JessieSune]

The trio trek back to the main lab where Shelby is trying to figure out why the three bots she had appear to have rebooted.

"Cass! I wasn't done filtering you. What happened, my good boy? Did Danielle miss you too much?"

...

"I...I must be. I can't be Mommy... Danielle's son... Ninetales don't have baby Ralts, and..." He thinks quietly.

 

[AmethystRoze]

"Everythings fine Shelby." Danielle said, happy to see her trainer back to normal and licking her. "Though.. there is a slight problem." She said, her eyes glowing blue, restoring Shelby's memories.

.....

Candy for the first time in her short life gave Balaa the death stare before going to Peter. "They're still your mommy and Daddy though." She said, giving up on the not adopted angle. Balaa watches, wondering why he seemed distressed.

 

[JessieSune]

Shelby's eyes widen as the data comes back. She quietly walks over to the keyboard and pushes a few keys, and a second later all four bots show first a "x_x", then a bunch of data, before shutting off where they stand.

...

"Yeah..." he nods. "You're right. They still love me, I can sense it. Maybe one day I'll know more."

 

[AmethystRoze]

"You're shutting them off?" She asked, calmly but concerned.

…..

"Sorry of anything we said hurt you." Said candy, while Balaa just looked on and sighed a little. "Yeah, I didn't mean to say anything out of line."

 

[JessieSune]

"Yes," replies Shelby. "I need to figure out how to bring them under permanent control because if you hadn't interfered this whole facility might be doing what a bunch of computers said to do."

"Is there not a solution other than taking away what's left of their freedoms?" Cass sounds regretful.

...

"It's okay," he grins. "If Mommy and Daddy aren't even actually mine, but still love me, they're even better than I thought!"

 

[AmethystRoze]

Danielle lowered her head, the entire ordeal incredibly ugly. "There's no way we could give them flesh and blood again is there? If they actually had organic minds they wouldn't be so strict, and plus they wouldn't even be able to brainwash people."

……...

Candy smiled. "Yeah!" She said simply, happy that her friend was happy. Balaa smiled as well, relieved that she hadn't hurt him.

 

[JessieSune]

Shelby shakes her head. "Best I could do is upload their minds into another organic body. Otherwise there's not much I can do, but...you see why I can't let them think freely, right Danielle? I can only imagine what they would have done to you..."

Cass ponders the dead eyed robots lying in a heap near one another.

...

"What should we play now?"

 

[AmethystRoze]

They weren't going to do anything to us.. only to the humans.... She thought. "Yeah...." She resigned. Her tails curled and she turned around. "Excuse me." She said walking into another room and closing the door.

....

"We could play monster tag!" Candy offers.

 

[JessieSune]

Cass starts to follow, but senses he shouldn't. The door closing, however, wakes a sleepy Simon up again.

"Danielle? How are you doing? You're so comfy...is everything okay?"

...

"How does it work?"

 

[AmethystRoze]

She had forgotten about Simon so was a bit startled at first. "Oh, Simon.. everything's fine..."

....

"We all run around and mommy or daddy is the monster and chases us!"

 

[JessieSune]

"I'm not very smart, Danielle, but I know what you look like when you're sad. Please tell me. I want to help!"

...

"Oh, gosh...I...okay...who's it?"

 

[AmethystRoze]

"I... It's fine...everything fine.." She started to ramble some. "Everyone's fine, you didn't hurt anybody...." Her voice stayed to shake.

.......

"Mommy!" Candy yelled, calling for her, glee in her voice.

 

[JessieSune]

This, of course, only makes Simon worry more. He gently sends just a slight jolt through Danielle's body, a common comfort method for electric types. "Please speak to me, Danielle. I can't bear to see you hurting."

...

"What is it, honey?" asks Malea, entering the central area of the tree trunk where they've made their home.

 

[AmethystRoze]

He succeeded in comforting her some. "I'm sorry.. I just.. can't seem to do any right.." She said sadly, her tails subconsciously petting Simon as she spoke.

..

"Can you be the monster?" Balaa asked excitedly.

 

[JessieSune]

"Why do you say that?" he asks, scrambling to her head. "I know you are a telepath. Pour your fears into my head. It won't hurt me -- I'll better understand than if you just talk. You're much better than you think, you know."

...

"Absol-utely!" Laughs Malea. "You'd all better RUN!"

Peter doesn't need to be told twice and takes off as fast as his little legs can carry him.

 

[AmethystRoze]

Danielle didn't want to worry Simon with her troubles...But she needed someone to talk to. He eyes glowed blue her shame and nearly overwhelming guilt flowing. "Whatever I do shrine ends up getting hurt" he could hear in his mind.

....

"AHHH" Candy and Balaa squealed with delight and fear and starred to run. Candy went with Peter as Balaa split from the group.

 

[JessieSune]

His eyes glow blue as well as he absorbs the full weight of Danielle's pain and fear and emotion. Finally his head nods and, eyes still blue, he says something Danielle has never before realized. "Not everything is up to you. Some Pokemon and people make choices that aren't your fault. Your good heart matters more than whether everything goes right."

...

Peter notices this, and motions towards a corner.

"Maybe we can hide in here?"

Malea chases after Balaa meanwhile.

 

[AmethystRoze]

Danielle now openly cried..His comforting words meaning the world to her. "But what good is it if..if I try to do good when...It all just turns bad in the end?" She asked through sobs.


.....


Candy nods. "Yeah! That might work!" She said, though she had hidden in that corner allot before and gotten caught.

Balaa it's running as fast as her legs could take her., she squealed with delight once more.

 

[JessieSune]

"Is it really all bad?" He asks earnestly. "I'm alive. I have my brother back. Without you I'd probably have been eaten by a predator in the woods before my birthday -- I wouldn't have evolved ever! My brother was rescued from the Daycare...and so was that adorable Ralts. Cass is your mate, too! Isn't that rather rare, and isn't he a very loving mate? Isn't Shelby kind and good to her Pokemon? Good to you? Aren't Malea and Bryndle happy because you helped them and rescued them? Liese and her brothers aren't robots because of you -- they're robots because some hard things happened and we all did what we could. And Balaa? If she were here, she'd be so proud, I can feel

...

For all the little ones' running, Malea has soon caught her, and picks her up with her mouth, shaking her head back and forth.

"Mmmpmfpmphmphmhp!" she growls playfully.

 

[AmethystRoze]

Danielle hugged the little chu with her tails and brought him to her front nuzzling and crying in him at the same time. She didn't speak, she couldn't through the sobs.

.....

"AHHH you got me!" She screamed once again with terror and delight.

Candy nervously crouched lower in their hiding spot.

 

[JessieSune]

Her tears soak his bright yellow coat quickly so that he looks like he has taken a salty bath. He hugs her back, knowing that right now she just needs a friend, not a solution, though he has an idea, rare though that is for his brain.

...

"Now that I've eaten you all up, I'll find the others!" Malea pretends to look fierce. "I...I smell....Ralts!"

She begins stalking the corner.

 

[AmethystRoze]

After a minute or so she calms, her eyes drying and her sobs slowing. "Th..thank you..im sorry to drag you into this.." She said, her voice filled with joy and sorrow.



Candy let out a cute squeal of fear as her mother preyed around the area, quickly covering her mouth.

 

[JessieSune]

"You don't need to apologize. We're friends. I promised I'd be there for you as long as I ever could, remember?" He smiles up at her, his eyes brown again, smile wide, ears down.

...

"Ah-HA!" Malea chuckles. "I'd rather have SHAYMIN for dinner. They're much more flowery! You can't hide!"

She pounces.

 

[AmethystRoze]

Danielle nodded, sniffling as she calmed more. "Your the best pikachu anyone could ever hope to have"



"AHHH." She squealed once more trying and diving out of the way.