Hey everyone!

Finally a new chapter for this after a good little while.

Word of warning, if you have a history of seizures or epilepsy attacks, don't watch the original episode this belongs to.

I watched it myself, and I felt my head tingle from the flashes.

So, seriously, DON'T risk your health to watch an episode of Pokemon, just read the synopsis on Bulbapedia or something like that.

With that said, let's begin.

Once again, Ash and his friends continued on their journey across Kanto and towards the next gym battle.

This time they'd only had one little misadventure since we last saw them, as opposed to several.

They met a girl who specialized in being a copycat, mimicking anyone she met almost perfectly, who went by the name of Duplica.

She even had a Ditto as her partner pokemon, but, let's just say the Ditto wasn't as good as she was, as whenever it transformed into another pokemon, it copied everything perfectly… except for the face.

Naturally that kind of killed the entire disguise as unless something had the same face as the Ditto...only a complete idiot would fall for that. Thus started the odd attempts to help Ditto perfect its transformation, culminating in ANOTHER encounter with Team Rocket, who this time stole Ditto.

When everyone decided to throw Team Rocket for a loop, Lapis opted out and instead decided him and Eevee would be looking for Ditto in their hideout while everyone else was… sending the Team Rocket motto back at them, Summer included.

Sure, he missed the fight, but they were able to get Ditto back without any fuss, the little slime now being able to transform properly… which it had shown by turning into a perfect copy of Lapis while they had been alone.

Overall it seemed that while Summer and the others had more or less enjoyed the little detour, Lapis was...less than pleased, evident by how he seemed rather...grumpy as they left.

So they cheered him up by making a quick stop to a Poke Mart where Ash bought Lapis a poke ball of his choosing to finally officially make Eevee his, and he ended up choosing a Luxury Ball.

Ash was glad he only had to pay for one, because they were the most expensive kind of poke ball in circulation, besides of course, the Master Ball.

And, after a few days, our heroes reached Matcha City, home of the Pokemon Transfer System.

It seemed to be just a routine stop on their trip, though Pikachu was feeling tired as opposed to his usual energetic self, he even emphasized it by acting like an old man with back problems.

"I get it Pikachu, we'll go to a Pokemon Center." Ash said in amusement as he picked up his friend and set him on his shoulder.

It was when they reached the Center when they realised things might get complicated again today.

"Yes, this is the Pokemon Center. What? Your pokemon didn't arrive when your friend sent it to you?" The resident Nurse Joy repeated in surprise as she was being swamped with multiple phone calls, putting the first on hold as she picked up another "Yes? No, I'm sorry, we don't know what's wrong either."

"I wonder what's going on?" Brock wondered in confusion as they stepped into the Center.

"Maybe some kind of technical issue from the sound of it?" Summer said as she listened to Nurse Joy answering all the phones.

Eventually, the medical professional became exasperated, heading into the Center's computer room, leaving behind a flailing Chansey that tried to communicate with humans using a telephone.

"That's not gonna help," Lapis deadpanned.

"Let's try and see what could." Ash said as they followed after Nurse Joy, coming upon a man in a lab coat with turquoise hair and thick glasses sitting in front of a computer, Nurse Joy looking over his shoulder.

"Any luck Dr. Aki?" she asked the man in a bit of concern.

"None yet." the doctor said, before groaning "I don't understand what could be the cause of this! My Transfer system is without fail!"

"Yeah right," Lapis snickered under his breath. He sure as heck didn't believe in the term 'perfect'.

"Don't be mean." Misty muttered as she swatted his back.

Ash didn't hear the two of them as he stepped closer to the nurse and researcher "Excuse me? Nurse Joy? What's going on?"

Joy turned to him, sighing as she rubbed her forehead "What isn't going on? We're having a huge issue with the Pokemon Transfer System made by Dr. Aki here. Say for example, we send out a rare pokemon like a Ninetails or an Arcanine, on the other end, they either receive something completely different, or nothing at all."

Hearing that, Summer frowned a bit. "Does that happen to only rare Pokemon or all types?" she asked.

"Well… mostly rare Pokemon." Joy added.

Summer hummed in thought at that.

Meanwhile, Dr. Aki stared intently at the screen of the computer, looking for whatever could be the problem, before he saw… something… that made him slightly nervous.

Standing up, he quickly turned to leave "I need to go check on something at my lab." he said as he passed next to Joy, before turning around at the door "No anti-viruses, I don't want to know what it'll do to my system!"

"Huh? Wait, Dr. Aki?!" Joy called to him in shock as she watched him leave, before sighing "What am I gonna do now?"

"Try to check on the system. I got a hunch this might be on purpose," Summer said.

"How about we check on Dr. Aki for you at the same time?" Ash proposed, with Joy nodding after a few moments as she went to draw up a small map to help them get to hit home.

Several minutes later, the group stood in front of the Doctor's home.

"Well… at least this isn't Lavender Town." Misty said with a sigh as they looked at the almost broken down mansion that the doctor had turned into his home.

"Though that CAN'T be healthy," Lapis deadpanned.

"It definitely isn't." Brock agreed as he shook his head.

"Well, I guess we have to go in there then." Ash said, clearly not wanting just as much as the others.

An awkward pause went through them...before Summer went up and opened the door, stifling a small chuckle as she was reminded that on a journey or not...they were still kids.

As everyone stepped inside, they looked around the mansion, which the doctor clearly wasn't bothering to clean up.

They eventually started going down a long corridor, where they found… a giant floating head of Dr. Aki.

Everyone just stared at it for several moments, dumbfounded.

"So, intruders have made their way into my home?" the giant head said in hostile tone.

"Uh...what?" Lapis blinked, the absurdity of the situation throwing him for a loop.

"Uh… actually, sir, we had something we wanted to talk to you about." Ash said, having a hard time believing he was talking to a giant head.

"A likely story, but that's just what an intruder would say!" Dr. Aki said, getting a bit standoffish.

"So says the big hologram." Summer said in deadpan as she pointed everyone's attention to the small projector on wheels.

"Plus, if we were intruders, we'd just smash that projector and there's nothing you'd be able to do about it," Lapis pointed out.

The hologram of Dr. Aki faltered at that "Um, well, I suppose that makes sense… why ARE you here then?"

"You seemed to have found something at the pokemon center and we wondered if maybe we could lend a hand." Brock explained, causing the hologram to nod.

"Very well, perhaps you COULD prove to be helpful, follow me." the hologram said before turning around as it's base rolled away, the group following after it.

After a minute or so, they entered what was definitely the doctor's lab, what with all the high tech equipment present.

"Please step onto this platform." the hologram said as it moved aside.

Ash was about to step on it, before Summer pulled him back as she looked at the hologram with narrowed eyes "Not until you explain everything to us."

The hologram sighed, apparently annoyed "Fine, fine, I suppose I can. You see, after reviewing the security footage of my home, I found a suspicious trio sneaking in, and then wound up activating this machine here." it said, nodding towards the platform "Which served to transport them inside of my transfer system, turning them into data."

"Suspicious trio huh?" Ash said in deadpan as everyone exchanged glances before sighing in unison "Team Rocket."

"I don't know what this Team Rocket is, but it sounds annoying." the hologram said simply, causing a few laughs from the group.

"You have no idea," Lapis couldn't help but say.

The hologram nodded "Anyway, I was hoping you lot could head into my system as well and stop them, because, not only are they most likely the ones causing the system errors, but they also stole one of my creations!"

"What did they steal?" Misty asked with a raised eyebrow.

"This." the hologram said simply as it turned to a computer screen, which suddenly turned on by itself, as… something… was pushing out of it.

Once it was done, everyone just stared in confusion at what stood before them.

It was some sort of polygonal creature colored in pastel pink and blue, with two round eyes on the sides of it's head.

"What's that?" Ash said in confusion as he brought out his pokedex and pointed it at the creature, only…

"No Data Found."

Ash just looked down at Dexter in surprise at that "Nothing at all?"

"Absolutely nothing."

"Place that in my projector, I'll give you the information on it." the hologram said as a slot for the pokedex opened on top of it.

Ash looked at the projector for a moment, before inserting his pokedex into the slot, which swallowed it up, before spitting back out after a minute "There, try again now."

Once again, Ash aimed Dexter at the creature, but this time…

"Porygon, the Virtual Pokemon. A man-made Pokemon that consists entirely of programming code. It can move freely in cyberspace and is expected of being capable of doing the same in space due to having no need for oxygen."

"Wait." Summer said, raising her hand as she looked at the hologram "You MADE a Pokemon?"

"That is correct, Porygon is my own creation. One that was actually somewhat accidental. I was planning on revealing him to Professor Oak soon." the hologram said with a nod.

"Well, he's going to know in a few minutes, Dexter is kind of connected to his lab at all times." Ash said with a sheepish laugh, before his pokedex started to actually ring.

"Speak of the devil and he shall appear." Brock said in amusement as Ash walked away from the group to answer the call.

After about a minute, Ash came back, his hand on the receiver "Um, Dr. Aki? Professor Oak would like your number so you could explain Porygon more in depth to him."

"Ah, right, here." he said as a small strip of paper came out of the projector, causing a few raised eyebrows before Ash shrugged and grabbed it, moving away again to continue talking to Professor Oak.

"Anyway, while Ash is doing that." Summer muttered as she turned to the hologram "Just to double check, you basically want us to go after Team Rocket, stop whatever their doing, and bring back your other Porygon, right?"

The hologram nodded "Correct, and I will send this Porygon in to assist you as well."

"Wait, why don't you just use an anti-virus or something like that?" Misty asked, curious about him not taking the easy solution.

"Because if I did that, the anti-virus would destroy the humans inside, and they'd be gone forever." the hologram said gravely.

Misty paled at that, nodding meekly "Noted."

"Alright… can you bring us back though?" Summer asked the most important part, trying not to think about being essentially deleted from existance.

"I'm positive I can, I tested it out on other organic matter several times, and it always came back out perfectly." the hologram said with a firm nod.

"Well...guess it's now or never," Summer sighed. Honestly she was a little unsure of this...not that it was going to stop her. She didn't become a Huntress by letting the unknown scare her off after all.

Once Ash was finally finished talking to the Professor, the group stepped onto an elevated platform in the middle of the room, as a glass tube lowered around it.

"Alright, make sure not to move around too much." The hologram told them as they could hear the real Dr. Aki typing away on his end.

After some moments passed, the machine turned on, as some kind of electrical current shot down from the top and passed over Porygon first, swallowing it up.

The next were Ash and Pikachu, who didn't seem fazed by the fact it was electricity (and with how many times Ash has experienced being shocked already, that's easy to understand), then Brock, who only seemed a little nervous, followed by Misty, who was taking deep breaths and had her eyes screwed shut, next up was Lapis, who shot Summer a worried look before he was swallowed up, and finally Summer herself, who took one last breath before she was gone.

"... I wonder if I should have told them I never tested it on living beings but on food?" the hologram muttered after a few moments of silence.

Cyberspace was… definitely something.

The various pathways the transfer system took were all represented as highways.

"So, this is inside a computer?" Ash said in wonder as him and the others fell through the air after coming out of a ring shaped portal.

"Looks like it, never thought I'd ever end up in this kind of situation." Summer said with a hand to her chin as she fell in a sitting position.

"How are you so calm?!" Misty asked as she flailed about, trying to slow herself down.

"Because Porygon is about to catch us?" Lapis said as he pointed… well, up for him, but he was upside down.

And indeed, Porygon, who had grown to a larger size and changed the shapes on his back to make give it a sort of railing structure, was floating below them, and easily caught all of them on it's back.

As they all righted themselves on it's back, Ash stood up and patted it behind the head "Thanks for the save Porygon."

Porygon simply gave him an eye smile at the thanks.

As everyone sat down, Ash pulled out Dexter and started looking over more of the information Dr. Aki had downloaded for him on Porygon, including what moves it could use, just to be safe.

"So, these must be the pathways the pokeballs move around on as their sent from one point to the next, right?" Lapis asked, looking over the railing.

"I'd have to say yes, it's rather interesting to see them moving so fast as well." Brock said with a nod.

Meanwhile, further up ahead, the main highway was being blocked by, well, an actual roadblock of all things.

And of course…

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all people within our nation!"

"Shut up already you morons, and keep collecting those pokeballs!" Meowth shouted as he interrupted the motto and punched Jessie and James on the back of the head.

"Oh come on, there's no need to rush." James said as he pulled out a cup of tea from somewhere and took a sip.

"We're the only ones who can come in here in the first place." Jessie said as she pulled out a folding fan and, well, fanned herself.

"Wanna bet?!" they all heard a certain someone shout, making them slowly look beyond the blocked highway to see… Lapis grinning as both he and Ash were hanging onto the back of Porygon's head.

"Oh come on! Why can't you twerps just leave us alone already?!" Meowth shouted in frustration.

"Because someone needs to teach you all a lesson! And find a better way to address us as a group, I'm older than all of you!" Summer shouted back with an annoyed frown.

"So, the twerps and the hag then?" Jessie said in disinterest… before a knife planted itself between her legs, making her screech in shock.

"Call me a hag again." Summer muttered darkly as she had several more knives between her fingers.

The others were too freaked out by her to wonder just exactly where she got so many knives, and just how she hid them.

"I don't think I need to elaborate, do I?" she said, her voice hard as steel.

Everyone promptly shook their heads like their lives depended on it, which for all they knew...it did.

"Good." was all she said as the knives were hidden… pretty much all over her body.

"Don't just stand there you two clowns, do something, and no insults this time!" Meowth said in a hushed whisper as he turned to the two human members of Team Rocket, who nodded quickly as they grabbed their pokeballs.

"Arbok go!/ Get them Weezing!"

"Use Smog Weezing!" James called as Weezing floated around the group and started releasing a dark purple gas cloud.

"Oh no you don't!" Lapis said as his eyes glowed blue and he spread his arms out, releasing a Psywave that scattered the cloud away.

"Time to show us what you can do Porygon, use Lock On and target Weezing!" Ash said as Porygon nodded and blinked, one of it's eyes turning into a scope as a red target sight appeared on Weezing.

"Wait, what does Lock On do?" Jessie muttered in confusion.

"It makes sure the next combat attack doesn't miss." James said in worry for his pokemon.

"Now, Conversion, and follow it up with Zap Cannon!" Ash continued, Porygon's body flashing as it became yellow and electric blue in color, before it charged up a sphere of electricity in front of itself, and flung it forwards, striking Weezing as it tried to dodge, paralyzing it as it was flung backwards into Arbok, and then onto Jessie and James.

"Why am I not surprised?" Meowth muttered with a facepalm.

"Conversion?" Misty repeated the attack name Ash had called out, never having heard of it before, as she looked at Porygon's body, which turned back to it's normal colors.

"It's one of Porygon's two exclusive moves, Conversion and Conversion 2, the first one changes it's type to match the type of an attack it knows, the second changes it's type to something that resists the attack the enemy pokemon last used." Ash explained as he held up Dexter to show the pages of the two moves.

"This isn't over yet Twerp, we have our own Porygon!" Meowth shouted up at Ash in annoyance as he shook Jessie to try and get her to focus.

"Right, right, gimme a second." she said as she shook her head and grabbed a pokeball from her belt "Go, Porygon Unit 00!" she called as from the pokeball came a Porygon with a large 00 on it's forehead, a small team rocket flag attached to it's tail, before it suddenly grew in size.

The gang hopped off their own Porygon as it lowered down to stand next to the barricade "Do your best Porygon." Ash said as Porygon nodded with a determined look as it flew up to do battle with it's counterpart.

It was rather interesting to watch, as both Porygons changed shapes to fight each other, such as turning into a spear, a shield, or even a hammer.

"Come on, let's clear the highway." Brock said as everyone nodded and started moving the barricades out of the way, the pokeballs slowly starting to get moving again.

"Hey, those pokeballs are ours!" James shouted as he stood up, returning Weezing at the same time.

"Yeah, so hands off!" Jessie added as she returned Arbok, before the rocket trio started to charge them… only they had to start to bend their bodies around in odd angles to avoid getting hit by a flying pokeball.

"Why don't you just give up?" Misty said with a huff as Pikachu turned to them and shocked them with a Thunderbolt, paralyzing them for a few moments.

At the same time, Porygon knocked down Unit 00, who collided with Team Rocket, as they were all sent down the highway by being pushed away due to the pokeballs.

And of course, they couldn't help themselves "Team Rocket's zooming off again!"

"See ya next time!" Ash shouted at them jokingly while he and the others waved at them mockingly.

Suddenly, Ash heard his pokedex start to ring, making him blink as he brought it out again and answered "Hello?"

Surprisingly, he was greeted by Dr. Aki's face "I noticed the issues with the system are starting to fix themselves up, I'm guessing things are going well?"

"Something like that. Let's just say we sent the problem packing," Summer nodded.

"Good, good, at this rate, things should-" he was cut off as he heard beeping come from next to him "Just a moment." he said, moving off screen and towards his computer.

They all looked between each other confused, before they heard him speak again "Why is the pokemon center trying to access the system? What are they trying to do?!"

Lapis felt a chill go down his spine "Why does that sound bad?"

The others couldn't help but agree with him.

Meanwhile, at the Pokemon Center, Nurse Joy slid a CD into one of the computers, before turning to a technician she had called for a little earlier "Alright, it's ready."

The tech nodded as he started typing away at the keyboard.

As Joy watched him worked, she jumped in surprise as the phone suddenly turned on without help "Joy! What are you doing to my transfer system?!" Dr. Aki demanded with a very obvious frown on his face.

"Oh! Hello Dr. Aki, the head center sent us a technician to try and fix the problem with the system, he's going to use a powerful anti-virus."

"What?!" Dr. Aki said in shock.

"Don't worry, this'll be sure to get rid of whatever virus is messing with the system." Joy said with a smile, giving the doctor a small V for victory sign, before hanging up.

The Doctor paled, before scrambling back towards his computer "Everyone! There's an emergency!"

"An Anti-Virus?!" the group was shocked that Nurse Joy could be so forgetful as to, well, FORGET the doctor's words before he had left earlier.

"What is that woman thinking?!" Summer shouted, a bit of anger seeping into her tone.

"I don't wanna die!" Lapis shouted in panic as he latched onto Summer's back.

Suddenly, they all tensed, turning towards the slowly clearing tunnel and peering into the darkness within it, they could hear… sirens?

Looking closer, they could see what looked like a sort of futuristic looking ambulance zooming down the tunnel towards them.

And the panel on the sides opened and out popped… missiles shaped like needles.

Lapis whimpered as he hid inside of Summer's cloak "I don't like the looks of that."

"We gotta run!" Ash said as they turned and started to run, while he shouted up "Porygon! We have to go!"

Porygon, who had been resting just above, quickly flew down and scooped up the group as they quickly flew down the highway, using coordinates the doctor had sent to Ash's pokedex.

As they flew down the path however, they came across Team Rocket, whom had been running back towards where they had been, and noticed the gang flying away.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?! This battle's not over yet!" Jessie called up in anger.

"Yeah! Get back here you cowards!" James added, trying to taunt them into fighting.

"Now's not the time for that!" Ash called down to them.

"We have to get out of here! We're in danger of being deleted!" Summer added, summing up the situation.

Jessie and James both stilled, looked at each other, before looking towards where they were running, where they could still see the major portion of the roadblock still there "Deleted?" they muttered in unison.

And then the roadblock blew up in a brilliant flashing explosion, and the stream of pokeballs finally started moving at full speed, the anti-virus chasing down towards them.

"We don't want to be deleted!" the two shouted in fear as they hugged each other while the pokeballs carried them along.

"Then climb on already would ya!" Meowth shouted at them, having already climbed onto Unit 00, Jessie and James quickly scrambling on as they flew off, trying to catch up to the gang.

As they thought they were safe, the anti-virus suddenly flipped on itself and changed from an ambulance… to a giant flying needle, picking up speed.

"What the heck is wrong with this thing?!" James shouted, before the anti-virus shot one of it's missiles at his group, missing them by a few feet and nearly blinding them with the flash caused.

It continued to fire it's missiles, the two groups having to wave around them eratically, and, honestly, the bright flashes were starting to give them headaches, especially Lapis.

"At this rate we'll never get out of here!" Brock shouted over the sound of the constant explosions.

Ash grit his teeth, looking ahead, before his eyes widened "There's the exit!"

"Then let's get out of here!" Jessie shouted, before both groups quickly flew towards it.

As both Porygons flew as fast as they could, no one noticed the anti-virus setting up something, splitting open down the middle and revealing a giant cannon.

No one except for Lapis, who had been keeping an eye on it.

His eyes widened, having an idea what the cannon was going to do, and warning the others wouldn't do much, so instead… well, he supposed it was worth a try.

He kicked off of Porygon's back, flying back towards the anti-virus, the first to notice being Team Rocket as they had been just a few meters behind the gang.

"Hey! What's the mini-twerp doing?!" Meowth shouted, honestly worried for him.

Sure, they were enemies, but he didn't want to see Lapis hurt himself.

His shout caught the attention of the others, who all turned back and stared in shock at Lapis flying towards the anti-virus.

Summer knew he must have a plan, but, she couldn't help but be worried "Please stay safe." she murmured.

"I hope this works." Lapis muttered to himself, his eyes glowing blue, using his powers not on the anti-virus, but on himself, trying to mess around with the part of his genetic sequence that handled which moves he was able to learn.

If he really was cloned from Mew, then what he wanted to do should be able to work.

The cannon on the anti-virus charged up, and took aim in front of itself, and a second later, it fired.

A bright beam of light shot out, heading straight towards Lapis.

Right at the last second, Lapis finally found what he had been looking for, and made it work the way he wanted, as he placed his hands in front of himself as if to catch the beam.

"Mirror Coat!" with the words said, an orange sheen surrounded his body, and the beam impacted his hands.

He grit his teeth as it tried to push him back, struggling to not give it a single inch, before finding the strength to push, sending the energy right back to sender.

The anti-virus didn't even have time to react as it was caught in the beam, and was destroyed.

At the same time, in the real world, as soon as the anti-virus was destroyed, the computer spat out the program disk, and embedded it into the wall in front of it… all the way across the room.

The technician and Nurse Joy both stared at it in shock, before the technician quickly bolted out of the room, surprising Joy even more.

She looked back at the computer, completely at a loss as to what just happened.

Lapis panted as the glow from the Mirror Coat faded away from his body.

He was surprised, he didn't think forcibly learning a new move would tire him out this much.

His eyes felt heavy, as he tipped forward and lost his hold on his own body, starting to fall down, passing out from exhaustion.

Before he fell too much though, a long purple, reptilian tail wrapped around him, as Jessie had called out Arbok to quickly catch him and bring him back to their Porygon.

As they placed him down on it, they looked in shock as a purple feline tail fell out of his coat.

Deciding to save the questions for another time, James instead made sure he was still ok, placing his fingers to his wrist and sighing in relief as he felt a pulse "He's fine! Just passed out!" he called out towards the gang, who all breathed sighs of relief.

Meowth sighed as he rubbed his temples "Let's get out of here already. This place is seriously giving me a headache."

Nobody argued with him, as they all finally flew through the exit portal, which closed once everyone was out.

A few hours later, everyone was in the pokemon center, Team Rocket included as they changed into simple civilian outfits, Jessie wearing a red spaghetti strap and blue skirt, while James just wore a green vest and jeans.

They'd realised they may have gotten in over their heads on this one, and had apologised and returned Porygon Unit 00 to the Doctor.

Besides, they REALLY didn't want to deal with cyberspace ever again.

As for the other Porygon, Dr. Aki had actually been listening as Ash commanded it to battle, and decided he wanted to obtain battle data, see how well Porygon did as an actual trainer's pokemon, and as such, has given him to Ash.

The sudden addition of a new member to his team certainly did surprise Ash, but they had to see to the safety of one of his travelling companions first.

Eevee was also adamant about not leaving Lapis's side, even as Nurse Joy made sure he was ok.

Speaking of the woman, Summer had taken her off to the side, and given her an earful about actually listening when being told to NOT do something from now on, the nurse being informed of what exactly had happened, and she couldn't help but blame herself for Lapis's condition.

Just the same, she, and everyone present, had been sworn to secrecy by Summer when they saw not only Lapis's tail, but his extra ears.

"You're all going to let him explain it himself when he wakes up, alright?" she said sternly, everyone nodding quickly.

"You know, it's kinda weird, having a truce set up." Jessie said as she fiddled with a strange pendant that looked like the bottom half of an egg shell.

"I'll say, I mean, Pikachu is just sitting right in front of us, and we haven't tried anything." James said in agreement.

"Yeah, well do you two really want to piss her off?" Meowth said, inclining his head towards Summer who had walked over to the water tank to get herself a drink.

Both of the human Rocket members shivered at the thought "No thank you." they said in unison.

"I really hope Lapis is ok." Misty said with a sigh.

"I'm sure he's fine. James himself said earlier he was just passed out." Brock replied, not really sure what else to say, besides, James, flamboyant as he was half the time, was the more honest of the three Rocket members.

"Wonder why he had… you know." Ash said, gesturing up to the top of his head and his lower back.

Pikachu shrugged up at him, not sure how to explain it himself.

A few more minutes passed, before the door opened by itself, Joy stepping out as she looked at it bewildered "He's… he's awake."

Everyone breathed sighs of relief at that, as Summer stepped up to the Nurse "And how is he feeling?"

"He seems a little… annoyed at something, I'm guessing it has to due with his… status." Joy explained, struggling to find a good word at the end.

Summer nodded at that, as everyone stepped into the room, seeing Lapis sitting on his bed with Eevee curled up on his lap.

She suddenly felt him connect to her mind, not breaking her stride 'Should we tell them about you, or only me?' he asked her.

'I don't think their ready to believe my own story Lapis, especially not right after yours.' she sent back, receiving the mental equivalent to a nod.

Idly, she noticed the egg Lapis always carried on a table not far from the bed, right next to his coat.

"You might want to grab chairs, it's not the longest story, but it's not the shortest either." Lapis told them, making them stop a bit as they went to grab chairs and sat around his bed.

When they were all seated, he looked at all of them, before sighing as he began his tale, telling them the circumstances of his birth, about his twin sister, about Amber, and about how he got free, up until the point he met Ash and Pikachu in Vermillion City.

Plenty of tears were shed during his story, most of which came from Team Rocket, whom were practically three fountain of tears from his story.

Seeing Team Rocket crying so much, certainly helped ease the mood.

"So, you don't know where your sister is at all?" Ash asked after everyone had calmed down.

"No clue, I'm sure she's alive though." Lapis said with a shrug.

Ash nodded, smiling a bit "I'm sure you'll find her again someday."

Lapis smiled at the words, simply nodding.

"You know, I think after today, we'll give you a break from trying to catch Pikachu for a week or so." Jessie said as she and James stood up.

"And don't worry mini-twerp, our lips are sealed about all this." Meowth said as he hopped off his own chair.

"Bye now." the three Rocket members said in unison, before quickly opening the window and jumping out.

"They REALLY don't like taking the door do they?" Summer said dryly as she watched them run.

"There's never going to be a dull day with them around." Lapis said with an awkward laugh, the others agreeing with him.

With the day finally done, our heroes were finally able to rest, before once more continuing on their journey, and Lapis felt closer to them, now that he trusted them with his secret.

They were definitely great friends to have.

And that's the chapter!

Again, don't watch the original episode if you've had seizures or epilepsy attacks before.

I don't want any of my readers to cause harm to themselves just to get a better visual of things.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and the surprise addition to Ash's team.

I've also, as some may have noticed, changed back Conversion to how it worked in older generations, since there's no such thing as a 'First Move Slot' in my story, Pokemon can use any and all attacks they're able to learn, and there's no move slots, so instead, Conversion will change Porygon's type to, most of the time, a move he's about to use.

As well, regarding Lapis using Mirror Coat, the story did a good job of explaining it, but I'll word it simply.

Mew can learn any and all TMs in the games, so, lore wise, that means she can learn EVERY attack, that trait was partially passed down to Lapis, who has to forcibly introduce an attack into his move pool, which tires him out afterwards.

Now, if that's all...

See ya next time everyone!