I am Eric, the Pok`emorph. A group of kids given the power to morph into any pok`emon we touch. That’s right, morph. A dying Clefairy gave it to us. He gave it to us when we stumbled across him as we were hunting for pok`emon.

I’ll start at the beginning, me and five of my friends, Jeff, Mike, Nick, Zack, and David, were in the woods hunting for pok`emon because we are very competitive about beating each other. But each of us only had one, I had a Charmander, Jeff had a Squirtle, Mike was using Bulbasaur, Nick with a Pikachu, Zack’s first was a Geodude, and David’s only one was a Machop.

"Is there anything good?" I asked sarcastically, that’s the way I am, a smart mouth.

"Well I’m tired of seeing Weedles and Caterpies, don’t know about you." Jeff said.

"Well, this is quite boring. C’mon Eric, I challenge you!" David said.

I never back down from a challenge, so five minutes later, David and I were on opposite sides of a clearing. I threw my red and white pok`eball and yelled "Go Charmander!" and out came my favorite red lizard.

David did the same only he yelled "Go Machop!"

I yelled "Ember!" and three flames came under David’s Machop.

Machop was phased but not down. David yelled "Low kick!" Then my Charmander received a low kick.

"Flamethrower!’ I yelled. Charmander shot a burst of flames out of its mouth at Machop.

"Give it a karate chop, Machop!" David commanded. Then Charmander was knocked over.

"Charmander, get up and use rage!" Charmander leaped up and ran at Machop and scratched, punched, and kicked Machop. Then finally he picked him up and threw him into the woods. We had won! "We did it Charmander!" I yelled.

"Char, char, charmander!" it said.

"Wow!" yelled Mike.

"How did he do that?! I wish my Geodude could do that!" a surprised Zack said.

After I returned Charmander into the pok`eball we went into the woods looking for Machop. We found it next to a much more hurt Clefairy.

"Machop, return." David said and Machop came back into it’s pok`eball.

"Cle, cle, clefairy, cle, clefairy." The Clefairy said.

"Let me get out my pok`edex to translate." I said and I did.

"How were you hurt?" I asked the Clefairy.

"The Missingno’s did this." it responded simply. "They were led by Team Rocket."

"The who lead by team who?" Jeff stupidly answered; he was always kinda goofy.

"The Missingno’s are a race of secret pok`emon that go into a pok`emon and control it completely. Fortunately, the only pok`emon they were ever able to get is Scythers, Ekans, Arboks, Koffings, Weezings, and Pinsirs. Yet they are still dangerous, especially their leader, Giovanni. He used to be a human, the leader of Team Rocket, but due to a horrible accident, he is now a Missingno. His host is a Dragonite, but he lead the Missingnos to conquer Team Rocket and now Missingnos are by themselves on a quest for world domination.

The Clefairys fought back but we are losing we need human help. Go into Mt. Moon and bring back the egg from my house." Zack went in Mt. Moon to retrieve the egg.

"Tell us more about the Missingnos." Nick requested. "They need to go to the abandoned Team Rocket headquarters every three days to get something from the Team Rocket computer. We haven’t figured out what that is, but if they don’t then they die. That’s just the way Team Rocket created them." the Clefairy said.

"Well you’ll help us fight them, right?" I asked.

"These wounds are fatal I won’t be able to help." The Clefairy said. That silenced us all. Zack came back with the egg.

"Good, now each of you put your hands on this." We did and my whole body tickled for about ten seconds. Then I took it off. "Now just by touching a pok`emon you can turn into that pok`emon."

"What!? Morph into a pok`emon!?’ I asked the Clefairy.

"That’s right, but never stay in morph for more that two hours or you’ll be trapped permanently." The Clefairy said. We heard some Scyther voices from far off. "Quick the Missingnos are coming, run away now." The Clefairy said worried.

"We can help you!" Jeff said.

"No, you don’t have any morphs, run and fight the Missingnos!" The Clefairy said, those were his last words. We ran away and we heard a hyper beam blast in the distance followed by a Dragonite roar. Then we knew Giovanni killed the Clefairy. We ran faster.

I went home and tried to sleep but obviously couldn’t. The next day I met with my buddies.

"Well, now what?" David said.

"I guess we acquire our pok`emon." I suggested.

We all threw our pok`eballs and our various pok`emon appeared from them.

"How do we do this?" Zack asked.

"Put your hand on your Geodude, then concentrate on Geodude. Like this." Jeff said as he put his hand on his Squirtle. His Squirtle almost fell asleep.

"I guess acquiring them puts them in a trance." I suggested.

"Yeah, look at that Squirtle." David said. Then we all put our hands on our pok`emon.

"Concentrate guys." I commanded as I slid my hand onto my Charmander’s head.

"Char?" my Charmander seemed to be asking. I felt a warm sensation travel throughout my body as I acquired the Charmander.

"Charmander, return." I told Charmander and he did.

"Now guys, it’s time to morph." I said.

"Here, I acquired my pok`emon first, I’ll morph first." Jeff said. Then, surprisingly his skin turned blue. Not too long after, he started to shrink and his chest turned yellow and sprouted lines like a pattern.

"Squirtle, squirt, squirtle." Jeff the Squirtle said to us.

"Huh?" we all said at the same time.

"SQUIRTLE!" it yelled then shot us with his water gun.

"Take it easy, Jeff!" Mike said. I got my, slightly wet, pok`edex to translate what Jeff was saying.

"Get out of my territory! Get out!" it screamed at us. Then the Squirtle shook a little bit.

"Guys?" my pok`edex translated the Squirtle said.

"Jeff?" we said.

"Why did you soak me?" Zack asked with a little anger in his voice.

"Sorry, I had trouble controlling its instincts at first." Jeff said, "It’s like I’m Jeff and a Squirtle at the same time. But it is so cool, you have to do this!" Jeff exclaimed.

"Okay." I simply said.

I looked over at Mike to see what he said, but there was a plant growing out of Mike’s back. I ran back into Zack who was becoming a gray circle.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" I yelled. I look over but Nick had lighting coming out of his cheeks and he grew a yellow tail. I prayed David would be all right as I looked at him, but he was turning reddish-gray and red ridges were forming on his head.

Jeff said, "Don’t be scared Eric, just do it."

I nearly wet myself as my skin turned red.

I nearly wet myself as my skin turned red. Then my butt caught on fire. As if my butt wasn’t changing enough, it stretched outward as a tail with the flame on the end. Only then did I shrink.

Eventually, I was my Charmander looking at a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur, a Pikachu, a Geodude, a Machop, and a bunch of Rattatas showing their fangs.

"Rattatas! Attack them!" I commanded. Quite by luck there were six Rattatas and six of us, one Rattata for each person. I went for the biggest one. He showed his fangs and screeched at me. I opened my mouth and roared back.

Then he pounced, but I was prepared for a tackle, so I twisted out of the way and he hit ground. Then I went in a scratched him. He used hyper fang and that put me down hard. But not for long, I leaped up and used ember. Rattata was knocked silly, but just to finish it off I used flamethrower.

I looked over and saw Jeff winning his battle, then he used water gun and wiped out the Rattata. I looked over at Zack and David just in time to see them use strength and throw their Rattatas into each other, they were gone. Mike had his Rattata caught in his vines and throwing him into the ground repeatedly, after he let him go he didn’t move, the Rattata lost the fight big time. And finally Nick thunder-shocked his Rattata into the woods.

We had won our first battle. But that was nothing compared to fighting a Scyther, or Pinsir, or Dragonite. But, I don't have to worry about that now.

"Hey! I've got an idea!" Nick suddenly realized.

"What?" I said.

"Let's go to the Pok`ezoo." David said. The Pok`ezoo is like a zoo but for pok`emon. David's Mom works at the Pok`ezoo so we have free passes.

"What for?" Mike asked.

"To acquire more pok`emon." David suggested.

"Should we go?" I asked my friends.

"You're the leader, Eric." Zack said.

"Me?" I asked surprisingly.

"Well I'm sure as heck not." Nick said.

"Fine. I say we go." I told them.

"Lead the way, fearless leader." Jeff sarcastically said.

Ten minutes later we were standing at the main gates of the Pok`ezoo. We went in and to the area behind all the habitats with no problem because the security guard knew David.

"Okay, the fire pok’emon are that way and the psychic pok`emon are that way and that way, let me think… oh yeah, are grass." David said.

"Well I want a Growlithe morph, let’s go toward fire." Nick said.

"Okie-dokie." David said. Two minutes later, we were in the Growlithe habitat.

"So should I just walk up to it and touch it?" Nick asked.

"No," David replied, "I’ll come with you." David and Nick walked up to a Growlithe and David fed it an apple.

"Acquire it now." David said. Nick started to pet the Growlithe, who went in a trance as he acquired it. Then they made a run for it as Growlithe chased behind them barking and trying to bite them. They made it through the door just as Growlithe shot a flamethrower.

"That was close." Nick said.

"Too close." David said.

I had an idea. "Hey David, take me to the Onixes." I said.

"Your joking, right?" David said, "You’ll never be able to touch an Onix."

"I have a plan." I said. Next, Jeff was in Squirtle morph, Mike in Bulbasaur mode, Nick was in his new Growlithe morph, Zack was a Geodude, and David was a Machop at the door to the Onix habitat.

"Now we only have one Onix because they are so big and dangerous. You sure you want to do this." David asked.

"Yeah. We’ve got nothing to worry about, Onixes are weak to water and grass and with the other three of you you should crush the Onix. Just weaken it so I can go in and acquire it with out it noticing." I said. It sounded great in theory, it really did. But this Onix is a particularly strong Onix. Plus it was in its prime of life and over thirty feet long.

I waited to here from my friends in there saying that they are winning and I can come in to acquire it. Instead I was hearing all five thuds as they were thrown all over the habitat.

"AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHH" I heard Jeff scream in agony.

I charged in the habitat. "Jeff use water gun and Mike use razor leaf!" I screamed. They both did as I said and the Onix dropped like the rock that he is. I ran over and placed my hand on a rock on Onix and acquired him. We ran for the exit, but the Onix woke up and dove underground.

We all stopped. "Where did he go?" Mike asked.

"Let's just run, okay?" Zack suggested. Of course, all he said was "Geo, geo, geodude?" If you happened to be in pok`emon morph you could under stand him but, I wasn't so I had my pok`edex translate.

We ran for the exit but right in front of us the Onix exploded from out of the ground. "AAAAAAHHHHH!" I screamed, then I morphed to Charmander and Nick demorphed then went to Pikachu morph, that way when we battle this Onix we will have an electric and a fire instead of two fire pok`emon.

"We've got to battle him guys!" I said. So it was six on one, a Charmander, a Squirtle, a Bulbasaur, a Pikachu, a Geodude, and a Machop against an Onix.

We charged the Onix, but it tried tackle on us. We all jumped out of the way except Zack who was tackled. But rock pok`emon have good defense so he wasn't hurt that bad. But while he was under Onix, Zack gave him a mega punch that sent him spiraling up. While he was up Nick and I double-teamed him.

I used fireblast against Onix's head on one side and Nick used quick attack on the other side. He let out a thunderous roar and used earthquake to knock us down, once we were down he did rock-throw to us all, my rock hit me in my tail. I let out a scream oh pain.

"AAAAARRRRRHHHHHHH!" Some of my friends and I screamed. I leaped up. "Time to finish it off guys." And we did, I used fire spin, Jeff used hydro pump, Mike used solarbeam, Nick used thunder, Zack used dig, and David used seismic toss. Onix lost big time then he was out for the count. We were able to exit the habitat then.

"Anything else to acquire?" David asked after we demorphed.

"Yeah me and Mike have been talking, take us to the ground habitats." Jeff said.

"I want a Sandshrew and Jeff wants a Cubone." Mike continued.

"Not bad morphs," David said, "follow me."

We followed as David took us to the ground habitats. We were in a hallway with a doorway on each side. I assumed one lead to the Sandshrews and one to the Cubones.

"Jeff, the Cubones are on the left and Mike, the Sandshrews are on the right. You shouldn't have any trouble, so go alone." David instructed.

The remaining our of us were talking. "Hey David, we all need flying morphs too. Let's get those after you and Zack get another morph." I told David.

"Okay," he said. "That shouldn't be too hard."

Then Jeff and Mike came back. They both got their morphs with no problem.

"Well Zack and David, your turn." Jeff said.

"I want a Rhyhorn." David said.

"Well let’s go find one." I said. David lead the way to another door. I stepped in as quietly as I could. I didn’t want to become the target of a Rhyhorn. I started to morph. I was stretched and stretched and as I was stretched my body became different sections.

Each of those sections became hard. I mean HARD! Metal hard, rock hard. Probably because each one of those sections were becoming a rock.

I was fully Onix. And I was about to go head to head with a long time rival. Two of the kings of rock pok`emon about to battle it out one on one. I was ready.

I wrapped him with my tail and put my monstrous head by his and roared. He shook a little with fear, then he bit me. I let go of him and he used strength, this time I was the one to be knocked clear. Then he tried to use takedown, but when he dove at my head I used bite.

The Rhyhorn was down. But not for long, he got up and used stomp. Then I used earthquake/rock throw combo. Followed up by a bind, and Rhyhorn was stuck.

"You can come in know, David." I said in Onix language as his pok`edex translated.

"Woah, you whooped up on him," David said. "Even got him all wrapped up for me." David put his hand on the Rhyhorn that was trapped in my wrap. The Rhyhorn was struggling before, now he stopped. That was because David was acquiring him. Then we ran out of the habitat.

I demorphed, then asked Zack what morph he wants.

"David, do you have any Snorlaxs?" Zack asked.

"Just one, he should be easy to acquire since he’s probably asleep." David replied.

Later we were in a habitat admiring a huge sleeping beast.

"Wow!" Zack said, "I’m going to morph that huge thing."

"Yeah, it’s a great fighter though. It has moves like harden, hyper beam, body slam, rest, and amnesia. Almost impossible to beat." David said.

Zack put his hand on the Snorlax and it snorted and rolled a little bit because it was disturbed from it’s sleep, but it went back to sleep. And Zack acquired it and it went to a deeper sleep. Then we left and went to the flying section.

After acquiring flying pok`emon I had a Charmander, an Onix, and a Gastly. Jeff had a Squirtle, a Cubone, and Beedrill. Mike had a Bulbasaur, a Sandshrew, and a Butterfree. Nick had a Pikachu, a Growlithe, and a Pidgey. Zack had a Geodude, a Snorlax, and a Spearow. And David had a Machop, a Rhyhorn, and an Aerodactyl.

Then we flew to the Virdian Forest. But on the way there, we ran into a bunch of flying Scythers. We passed them by, but the they turned around and took a swipe at Mike’s Butterfree morph.

"Missingnos!" I screamed.

"Scy?" The Scythers said like they were surprised we knew about them.

I used take down and ran into one headfirst in my Gastly morph. It fell to the ground and another one came for me, he used slash and cut me enough to be bleeding. But Mike flew over it and gave it sleep powder. It was dozing off, and I used dream eater to finish it off.

I looked over and saw Nick’s Pidgey morph dive at a Scyther, he missed and the Scyther cut one of his wings off.

"AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" he screamed as he fell to the ground. I dove after him. I was on the ground with Nick and Scythers were falling all around us. Nick was still screaming and bleeding, bad.

"Nick, demorph!" I said. As he did he stopped screaming.

"The pain stops when you demorph." Nick told me once he was human again, I demorphed too. Just then a bunch of Koffings and Weezings came flying threw the trees. David in Aerodactal morph hit a bunch with wing attack. Zack in Spearow used drill peck over and over to get the Koffings. Jeff was using pin missile.

Nick and I morphed on the ground. Then it was like bird hunting. Nick was using thunder-shock to get the Koffings and Weezings down and I was using flamethrower. My other friends were having a dogfight in the air. Pretty soon all the Scythers, Koffings, and Weezings were down.

That’s when the Pincirs, Ekans, and Arboks came out of the bushes behind me. Everyone demorphed and then morphed again. Me to Onix, Jeff to Cubone, Mike to Sandshrew, Nick to Growlithe, Zack to Snorlax, and David to Rhyhorn. Zack and I was so big that we ran to the other side of the field to make room for our battle, half of the ground troops followed. I made a sharp turn around and used tackle on about three Ekans, two Pincirs, and an Arbok. They were out.

I dove underground. All the Ekans and Arboks followed. Few people know that Ekans and Arboks attack very often from underground. But I made a sharp turn upwards and knocked most of the snake pok`emon with my head and they were stuck because of the pressure built by the speed I was moving at. When I emerged above ground I made a sudden stop, and the whiplash effect made the snakes fly high.

I saw that Zack had taken care of the Pincers above ground. But he was out cold and bloody. Suddenly a Zack flew up and a Rhyhorn emerged from underground right where Zack was laying. David the Rhyhorn said "Hey guys! These battles are fierce. You should have seen me use take down to this Pincir. I never thought I’d get such a rush from fighting a pok`emon."

Jeff came up from a hole in Cubone morph and demorphed. "What a rush! That was kind of fun. I was bone clubbing Ekans right and left. Then a bunch of Arboks charged me, so I thrashed into them and sent them flying in all directions. Finally, I boneranged a Pincir into the woods."

We all demorphed and headed home. That night I had a dream. I was a Charmander and I was hopelessly fighting a Dragonite.

"The Missingnos will never die!" Giovanni the Dragonite cried. I jumped on its tail and scrambled for the head. I was scratching at its eye fiercely. It seemed to be unaffected, then it shook its head and I flew off. When I was on the ground it used dragon rage.

The flames flew toward me. There was nowhere to run, I was going to die. The flames drew closer…closer…closer. One more second of life left! I woke up, with a gasp, sitting upright in my bed dripping with sweat.

The next day we decided to look for this abandoned Team Rocket headquarters. It was rumored to be somewhere outside of town. We were all in flying morphs, which meant I was a Gastly. I was a black ball with eyes and a mouth a barrier of steam was around me.

We were outside of town and there was nothing but forest and more forest.

Nick in Pidgey morph said "How are we going to see the building through the trees anyway?"

"Let’s just hope we can catch a glimpse, I guess" the Spearow who was Zack said. David with the great eyes of an Aerodactyl saw it first. There was a clearing of trees and in the clearing, it was there.

It was HUGE! About the size of a football stadium with a giant red "R" on top of it. We landed somewhere on the outside. We all morphed into our secondary combat morphs to get in. That meant an Onix, a Sandshrew, a Growlithe, a Snorlax, a Rhyhorn, and a Cubone were standing outside trying to break in.

"Okay, this is simple," I explained, "Zack, David, and I are going to try to break through the wall here, I think a Snorlax, a Rhyhorn, and an Onix can do it. Nick, you find a door and burn through it. Mike and Jeff, you dig underneath the building and come through the floor. Once you’re inside attack anything and everything."

"Sounds so simple until we go in and get our heads cut off." Nick said. I sighed. The Cubone and the Sandshrew, Jeff and Mike, burrowed together underground. Nick the Growlithe ran around the corner of the building. That left Zack, David and me.

"CHARGE!" I yelled. We all ran full speed into the side of the building. It fell like a Jenga tower and we saw a bunch of startled Pok`emon look at us with shock. I got a look around the place. There was a ring of computers in the middle, and in the middle of that there was a pool filled with grayish water. There was a wire from each of the computers that went in to the pool.

There was a line of Pincirs, Scythers, Ekans, Arboks, Koffings, and Weezing going toward the pool. The first one in line put his head down with his ear pointed toward the pool then a mass of tiny black dots left his ear and fell into the pool. That must be what a Missingno looks like. The now free Scyther started to scream and was about to run. But then two Pincirs came up and each grabbed on of his arms.

They took him to a cage full of Scythers. There were three other cages, one with Pincirs, one with Ekans and Arboks, and one with Koffings and Weezings. While the Pincirs were there they grabbed another Scyther out of the cage and took it to the pool. They made the Scyther bend down and put his ear next toward the water then a Missingno jumped up from the water and into the Scyther’s ear. A prisoner once again.

All of this in a massive complex. I wondered how in the world are we going to beat the Missingnos?

Several pok`emon attacked, an Ekans jumped at my head, I swung my head and batted it away. A Pincir tried to vicegrip my tail. Then I used wrap on him. I jumped up and tackled a Weezing that was flying at me.

I turned my head and saw David being wrapped by an Arbok. I swung my tail toward that direction. But instead of hitting them, I unwrapped it and the Pincir that was in wrap flew and hit the Arbok off David. David then stomped on a Koffing, once it got up he used take down.

Zack was in better shape and he body slammed about five different Missingnos. Once he got up he used Mega Kick and kicked them across the room. We were running low on morph time.

"Guys, demorph!" I yelled.

"We can’t let them see us!" Zack replied.

"Why not?" I said.

"They’ll get us when we are at home." Zack said.

"They are just pok`emon," David replied, "How are they going to find where we live?" So we demorphed. Then the Missingnos backed us into a corner, we were surrounded. Then behind the ring of Missingnos that trapped us, a door melted and a Growlithe jumped through. Also a Sandshrew with a Cubone came out of the floor.

They all lined up and Jeff kept using bonerang, Mike digging up ground and throwing it at the Missingnos, and Nick kept flamethrowing them. Pretty soon all Missingnos were down.

"Took you long enough!" Zack yelled.

"Thanks. I thought we were toast." I said. Everyone who hadn’t already demorphed did so now. Then we all morphed to our primary combat morphs, Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Pikachu, Geodude, and Machop. About two dozen more Missingnos came, but they were easy to kill.

I was leaning against a wall in exhaustion. Then the wall behind me started to shake. We all backed away and just looked at the wall. Then it caved in as the Dragonite tore through.

The Team Rocket headquarters was already trashed. But when the Dragonite tore thought the wall the whole place caved in. We didn’t really think it would make much difference because the Missingnos would build it back up again in about a week.

Another reason we didn’t care was because we were being attacked by a Dragonite. "It seems these fools can’t kill you on their own, so the great Giovanni will do it for them. Morphers, say goodbye to you life." Giovanni said.

"That’s Pok`emorphs to you, buddy!" I yelled. Then I used fireblast, the ultimate fire move. Giovanni seemed unaffected. Nick the Pikachu ran across the room, was he scared? Or did he see something?

I ran up Giovanni’s tail until I got to his head. I then fiercely scratched at Dragonite’s eyes. He shook his head and I flew off. I was right under the Dragonite. He looked at me and used dragon rage. This is just like the dream, and I was going to die. The flames drew closer … closer … closer … one more second of life left! Jeff used surf and put out the flames.

"Thanks Jeff!" I yelled.

"That’s what I’m here for." He replied. Then the Dragonite wrapped us all in his tail. I tried to escape but I was stuck.

"HAHAHAHA!" Giovanni laughed. "Now how tough are you, Pok`emorphs?"

"A lot tougher than you!" a Pikachu replied. Nick stood across the room with a Thunder Stone in his hand. "Giovanni, eat this!" He put the Thunder Stone on his head and he evolved into a Raichu. "RRRRAAAAAIIIIII!" Nick said. Then, he used thunder attack and lightning came down from the sky and hit Giovanni.

Giovanni accidentally let go of us all except Mike. "RUN!" I ordered. We were too caught in the moment to notice Mike was missing. Once we were deep in the woods we all caught up with each other.

Suddenly I noticed Jeff turn white.

"Jeff, what’s wrong with you?" But then my vision turned white, I thought I had turned white just like Jeff. When my vision cleared I looked at Jeff again but he wasn’t a Squirtle, he was a Wartortle. I started to say something. But instead of saying "Charmander", I said

"Charmeleon! Guys, we evolved!" We were now a Charmeleon, a Wartortle, a Machoke, a Graveler, a Raichu, and a Ivy… "Where’s Mike?" I asked my friends.

"I don’t know," Nick said. "I thought he ran out with us." We all demorphed.

"I’m sure he got out okay, let’s go home and sleep and find him tomorrow." David said. So we all went home.

"Mike! We thought you were dead. Go ahead and demorph." I said.

"Eric, when Nick thundered Dragonite and he let you go, he didn’t let me go. He kept me in wrap, he kept me for more than two hours. I guess I’ll be like this for a while." Mike said lowly.

"No. No, it’s not true, demorph Mike. Come on and try, please!" I pleaded.

"I have tried, Eric." I didn’t say anything. "But hey, I kind of like being an Ivysaur. I was really surprised when I evolved. Plus, have you seen one hunt?" I shook my head very lowly. "Well, it’s awesome!"

I took another look at Mike, he’s going to be like that for a while I thought. "Mike, we will find a Clefairy who can tell us how to make you demorph, until then…"

"Yeah, until then the Pok`emorphs will battle." Mike finished.