The Evolution

<Emi, that would be lovely, thank you so much!> She was very grateful for the Bellossom girl; she barely knew Effie and offered her a berry! Effie would repay her someday. but now, she had to figure out how to even get the berry. <How will I get the berry from all the way over here> she asked, sadness in her voice.

Effie gasped as the flames surrounded her. She became terrified and hugged her knees tightly to her chest while shutting her eyes. Yikes, flames! The flames hit her, but didn't burn her. They gently tickled her skin, causing her to giggle. She opened her eyes to look at the beautiful blueish purple flames. The tickling flames danced around and against her skin, warming her.

She looked up to see the friendly face of Cheio. She giggled; it was funny seeing him upside down! "What did you find, ghost-boy?" She teased.

 

"Some lovely things. Theres deffinately no lack of food here. Whatever they wanted us here for, they want us alive for awhile."
He drifted down abit till his whole body appeared and he was sitting on the celing.

 

<I got the best idea!> Emi exclaimed. <Hey Cheio, would you mind giving Effie this Oran Berry? I'm sure you can get it to her right?>

Emi placed the Oran Berry on the floor next to her and waited.

 

<I'm sorry. I can only pass myself through walls.>
(Deleted it, nvm ^^')

 

Arlo was quiet for a few minutes, deciding to listen to the conversation at mind. His cellmate was someone he wasn't really interested in riling up, since she is just a kid, so he turned his attention to the walls. That was, however, until a guard walked by. The motion caught his attention, so the Staraptor Gijinka puffed himself up, trying to make himself look larger than what he already was, and walked to the guard, stopping in an aggressive stance. Glaring the guard down, he tried to decide what was the best plan of intimidation. Without much delay, Arlo pushed himself against the door, attempted to scare off the guard with an attack-like movement. He could've asked for food or something, but that'd be too easy, plus it'd require him to converse with the guard. Arlo wasn't fond of that idea. After attack the door, he returned to his aggressive stance, continuing his staring down of the guard. <Hey, guardman's over here> he figured it'd be a nice heads up for the others, letting them know that there is life outside of the cells moving around.

 

I use mind speech to try communicate with the guard. <Hey, can you let us out? Give us some food at the least, and explain whats going on here?>

 

The guard never flinched, never moved from infront of the wall, his sadistic smile never faltering. He soon reached for his pocket and plucked out an unknown device. The guard watched the bird act tough with a laugh before putting the odd device on something attatched to the wall. He mouthed out something to Arlo. 'You... realy... need... to... lighten... up... kid...'
No sooner did his lips stop moving, the doors opened and he colapsed.

Cheio smiled. <And that is how you break out of jail. Any questions?>

 

(not needed)

 

<Hypnosis has a multitude of uses, kid. The guy should be out cold for several hours.>

 

<Hey...what happened over there?> Emi asked in her thoughts.

Emi peered through the glass door, trying her best to see what exactly happened. But alas, her efforts were in vain. She couldn't see anything! The cell was too far for sight. Emi stayed on standby, waiting for a response from anybody.

 

(Dude, 7, the gates were opened. Thats why cheio hypnotized that guard. As for the collar...)

Cheio phased back into the celling as the collar was pushed tward him. He would soon pop up again above the guards, just his face and abit of his hair showing.
"Arent you a good host. But I'm afraid I must decline your offer, that collar would clash with my outfit."
He told the woman with a laugh.

 

Emi watched from her cell during all of this. <You know, that scientist, Dr. Esther was it? I think she's a bit too friendly-looking. It's kind of suspicious.> Emi spoke in her thoughts. <But all those guards don't look so nice, and I doubt their experiments will do us any good. Besides, what if what they're planning to do to us risks our lives? Or kill us possibly? I really don't want to head to that path yet, but I feel that it's possible that they want to hurt us. Also, what happens if we do get out of here and other gijinkas get captured by these...people? They may not know how to escape or what these people plan to do to them. Then again, we can't even get out of here unless we play along...>

Emi sighed at the thought of the experiments the people were planning to do to them. Will they kill us? Will we survive? What do they even plan on doing to us? They could give us some information about this...Emi thought out of the mind conversation.

Trying to ease her stressed mind, Emi fell asleep, but still conscious about everything that occurred in the outside world.

 

<Aww, thanks!>, Maxwell replied to Emi in his thoughts. As when Effie mentioned her being hungry, Maxwell had said, "Now that you mention it, I am pretty hungry. As when Cheio had came in, he had startled Maxwell. "Oh, manners pl0x!", Maxwell said, jokingly. "Im bored,", Maxwell had said, as he just tried to break the door open for a few minutes that felt like hours, even though he knew that he'd fail.
A few minutes later, Cheio had knocked a guard out cold. "OOO! That hypnosis was awesome!", Maxwell had exclaimed, just as a few more guards have came, and unlocked the door. As when Emi had said her thoughts, Maxwell replied, <True, true, lets not play friendly, lets play play!>
"Aww, thanks! Now, can you tell us why we're here please?", Maxwell had asked Doctor Ester.

 

Lighten up? Now that comment just threw Arlo into a bit more of a bad mood than what he was in before. The scientists and guards interrupted Arlo just before he ran for it, however before the guards took their fallen friend he did manage to kick the unconscious man. He figured it was for the best if he went with the group, the guards pulling him out of his cell having the most influence over this decision. Puffing himself up again, he made sure he seemed dangerous to the guards. There were a little too many for him to start fighting here, he couldn't trust the others that they'd have his back if he threw the first punch. Not that he needed anyone to have his back, of course. That'd be silly. He's Arlo, he could take on anything! Not really though, outside of Arlo's egotistical mind, he could probably only successfully take on one of the guards.

Out in the halls, Arlo was faintly aware of one of his shoes coming off, but the events of Ghostguy, as Arlo nicknamed Cheio, were more interesting. While he was watching the events unfold, he heard one of the others thought-talking. "Hey, lady! Are ya takin' us to some food?" he asked Dr. Esther, trying to figure out what exactly the scientists were going to do to them.

 

Effie stared at Esther, wondering what the woman wanted with her and the other Gajinkas. Her heartbeat sped up and she felt queasy. <W-what if they experiment on us?>

She peeked out of the now opened cell, looking at the back of Miss Esther. <where do you think she's taking us?>

Effie watched the defiant Cheio pull away from his eerie collar, which supposedly would keep him from phasing through walls. She smiled at his bravery to stand up so quickly to the Boss.

The Ampharos girl stood close to Tetris, clinging to his arm, worriedly and in fear. She didn't want to move foreward until he did. He was her first friend in this wretched place.

 

(*Flails* So much to catch up on!)

Noise...

The Zoroark twitched. Her ears moved very slowly as she listened to the others. She hated being around such noising people, but from what she could gather, they were all Gijinka's, like herself. She remain quiet as she listen to their conversation, but her ears flicked when she heard the gijinka's voices in her head. She grumbled at the thought of having other people inside her head, but that didn't stop her from answering the Lucario's first question.

<...Tsubaki.> She grumbled through the thought conversation. Opening her bright blue eyes, her eyes locked on the Lucario. <...What is with all the noise?> She asked. The Zoroark flinched at the harshness in her voice, but didn't bother to apologize to the others. The gijinka let out a hiss of pain as she pulled herself to her feet. By the time the Zoroark gijinka got to her feet, her vision blurred and she wobbled on her feet.

Letting out a small 'tsk' the gijinka moved her hands to her empty stomach, but remembered that her hands were bound. <Does anyone have some food?> The Zoroark asked, but growled when she notice that the bars were up and that Esther was talking. She took a step away from her wall and hissed at the woman, "What the hell do you want?" Tsubaki said, emitting a very low, threatening growl. She absolutely loathed the woman for many reasons, but the biggest reason was for taking away her ability to shift. She had tried so many times to try and shift, but it only caused her more pain.

<Be careful... This woman is extremely unreliable. She's taken away my ability to shift and nearly starved me to death on more then one occasion.> The Zoroark warned. Though she did not know these gijinka's, Tsubaki felt that she should at least warn them about this sociopathic woman.

 

Remaining quiet for quite some time, Gareth watched the others act out. Some appeared more agitated than others, some looked scared, while others were patiently waiting for something good to happen. Much like the patient ones, Gareth was still calmly waiting for the perfect moment. After all, there was no easy way out and getting all worked up so easily would only make him tire out faster. Might as well try to sort things out while he had the energy.

Just then a lady with dark red hair appeared before them, greeting them happily. Something about her cheerfulness didn't settle right with Gareth. It just seemed too odd for someone like her to be merry in a place like this, without some form of devious plan behind it all. Out of pure chivalry, Gareth nodded his head to her, greeting her back. "Greetings. . ." He couldn't help it. It was a habit he was forced to learn back at his home. Be kind and courteous to everyone despite who they really were.

Gareth had noticed that Emi had seemed a bit stressed out and had closed her eyes. He heard what she had said and couldn't agree more with her. Playing along seemed like the only reasonable choice they had. He made a quiet move towards her and very gently, placed a hand on her shoulder and whispered to her; "Don't worry. We'll get out of this alive." Gareth was certain about it. He too was really worried about what could happen and what will happen. But he was trying his hardest to keep these weary thoughts tucked away in the back of his mind.

The doors had snapped open, allowing them to take the chance to escape. Although as tempting as it was to just run, it would have been stupid to do so. They would have captured him in a second. Or worse, he would have gotten the others into danger and that would have not been well at all. Gareth decided to wait for Emi to awaken from her light-sleep first. When she did, he would allow her to either walk out before him or walk out with him. Either way, if the guards wanted to pull anything funny on them, he would at least try and defend her and the Gardevoir whom hadn't woken up yet.

Gareth heard the warning that the Zoroark had mentioned. The Empoleon gijinka frowned at this. Starving someone for the sake of science? What sort of place was this? Questions had started to flow into his mind, but he quickly shoved them into the back. He needed to keep calm, remain aware of his surroundings, be ready for anything that could come next.

 

During her short nap, Emi heard the Zoroark's words in her mind. So she isn't as friendly as she seems...Emi thought in her nap.

Soon enough, Emi woke up from her sleep upon feeling a gentle touch on her shoulder. Her eyes slowly opened and she saw Gareth by her left. She was awake to hear his soft whisper. When she heard what he said, she smiled and replied, "I hope so."

Emi recalled all that happened before she went to sleep. That scientist, the guards, and...the opening of doors? Emi immediately stood up and noticed that the door was wide open, and all her thoughts were directed towards escaping. However, Emi decided that wasn't an option, as she saw many other gijinkas outside in a crowd, following the suspicious scientists. Two guards walked into the cell, prepared to drag Emi, Gareth, and the Gardevoir gijinka to wherever they were being taken to. They took several steps forward, and Emi took the same amount of steps backwards. She didn't plan on being dragged nor staying her much longer. Emi was incited to fight, however the original plan was to simply play along. She had a small look of hesitance as one of the guards roughly took her arm.

<Will we really be all right?> Emi asked with slight fear in her thoughts.