Alternate Possibilities

Writen by: Arti Cuno

Part Seven

Note: this starts off with little Arti and Gary here. Basically part.. er, a large chunk.... of part one until we see the group from the future come in =) I did this to better show what point they show up in and as a refresher =P

"Wha'? Where am I?" Gary moaned, waking up with a bright light in his eyes. He looked left then right but no one was around. "Eevee?!" he called out, panicing. "Eevee, where are you, girl!?"

Gary stopped calling and looked around, he headed a chain dragging on the cement floor with a low "weee..." from Eevee. He looked to a corner of the room where it was dark and almost imposible to see, and there Eevee was, trying to get to her trainer but as being held back by a chain bigger then she was.

"What happened?" Gary asked his pokémon, not expecting an answer. "Last I remember is a run in with a tree..."

"And we brought you here to Viridian!" a voice said from the other side of the room as a light started to shine in. "We told you we were making you part of the Rocket Gang."

Gary shielded his eyes from the light and noticed the figure of Cassie and Micheal, the Rocket's that were chasing him. "You again!" he hollored. "LET ME AND EEVEE GO!!!"

"Looks like the kid wants to go free..." Micheal laughed. "What you think Cassie?"

"I think he needs some- what's that?"

Cassie and Micheal turned around to see Cassidy and Butch coming along dragging another kid along with them. The threw her in the same room as Gary then took the blue bird pokémon following her and chained it up on the opposit side of the room of Eevee.

"You bitch!" Cassidy screamed, pulling off her glove and sulking over the bite mark in her hand.

The kid in the room with Gary started to growl like and animal and tried to attack Cassidy again. Butch Steped in the way grabbing the kid by her hair and flinging her back in the room.

"Shut the door, quick!" Cassie screamed, in fear of being bit herself after seeing what happened to Cassidy. "We'll have to wait for that kid to calm down before we convert her into a member of the team."

Butch and Cassidy nodded. "It was hell to pay getting her here, but Giovanni and the kid's father both said she'd make a good member soon as we tame her down some." Butch explained.

"Who's her father?" Cassie asked.

Butch shrugged. "Some lab guy, works for the Prussian part of the team. Think his name was Sanimi Nakido? something like that."

The Rockets walked off talking amung themselves leaving Gary and Eevee with their new "room mates". Gary backed off, going into the corner with Eevee, scared for his life. If the insane person in the room with him attacked a Rocket like that, who's to say she wouldn't attack him too?

"Uh, hi?" Gary said meekly. "I'm, uh, Gary... you are...?"

Gary imediately regretted having asked since "she" seemed not to be interested with anything other then her bird she'd been flung in with. Gary reached for his pocket to get his pokédex but realized it was missing. After a quick glace about the room he realize it wasn't with him and neither was his poké balls. "My spearow.." Gary muttered. "The first pokémon I caught, gone..."

"It's not gone.." the girl said, not seeming too happy with being where she was. "They took it to use as their own probably. They want my articuno but I won't let them have her."

Gary sighed slightly now that they girl seemed like she wasn't going to lash out and kill him, he petted Eevee as the puppy curled up on his lap and feel asleep. "So, I'm assuming you have a name, care to tell me what it is?" Gary said after a few minutes of silence other then the articuno's cooing.

"None of your bussiness." she snapped, but paused then took on a not so mean tone. "If you must know though, it's Déestinée, everyone calls me Arti though..."

Her articuno cooed loudly and started to peck at the chain around its body. It wasn't a fully grown bird, it's colors were lighter then if it was mature. The bird spread its wings out and opened it's beak, and blew out a beam of ice, freezing the chain then smashing it with another few pecks. "Cuuuuuunooooo!!!" the bird said happily and waddled about the room.

"Hey! Can you do that for my eevee?!" Gary spoke up, as he stroked Eevee's fur. "She hate's being held in poké balls so I'm sure she hates being tied up."

Arti nodded and looked at her pokémon. "Articuno, Ice Beam the chains on that eevee."

"Articuuuunooo!" the bird screeched, using it's ice attack on the chain, then pecking in hard, chattering the chain on Eevee like it'd done it its own chains.

Eevee woke up and looked around crying out scared to death. She had no idea what was going on. "Wee!!! WEEE wee WEEE!!!!" Eevee cried out over and over, clinging to Gary.

Arti picked up Eevee and cuddled her, the pokémon seemed to instantly calm down and settle into Arti's arms looking as if she was going to go back to sleep. Gary's mouth hung open as he stood in disbelief that all Arti had to do was cuddle Eevee and she stopped having a fit.

"You're good." he said under his breath. "How long have you been training pokémon? You don't look like you're even old enough to have a licence."

"I don't have one.." Arti replied. "I don't need one, can't get one anyways, I'm only eight!"

Gary nodded with a grin on his face, but quickly stopped grinning and blushed slightly. He hadn't realized it at first but he was "checking her out". Gary sighed, he didn't know what he liked about her, but there was something. Blonde hair, large chocolate brown eyes, or the fact that she was really good with pokémon. His eevee seemed to love her right from the first time she touched it.

Gary stepped up to Arti to take Eevee back but found himself distracted and staring into her eyes. Arti blinked twice and tilted her head to one side. "Something wrong?" she asked. "You look like you're sick..."

Gary took Eevee quickly and looked away, "Uh, no, I'm fine..." he blushed.

"Good!" Arti said, walking upto the door that the Rocket's had closed and locked up tightly. "I dunno about you, but I wanna get out. You wanna help me get out of here?"

Gary nodded. "Of course! I don't want to be a Rocket like they seem set on making me be."

"Then we'll have to think of a way to get out... I'm fresh out of ideas, I got chucked in here cause of the last place I broke out of..."

Arti plopped down and sat hugging her knees. Gary sat down beside her and layed Eevee down beside him. "Couldn't you're articuno freeze the door and break it?" Gary asked, nudging closer to Arti, pretending to settle down on the floor and get comfortable.

Arti shook her head. "It might work, but they'd catch us before we got too far. And my hiding place I had before isn't a hidding place anymore, they found it somehow... I dunno where else we could go."

Gary looked about the room as he tried to help think of a way to get out but found his eyes wandering to Arti again. He slapped himself leaving Arti to give him and odd look while Eevee gave him the same look and a concerned "wee?".

"Uh, my mind was wandering..." Gary confessed, but didn't say what it had wondered upon.

Arti yawned and nodded. "Well, keep it from wondering, if we don't get away soon, they'll be back for us. The Rocket Gang plan on taking over everything, but they need more people to help them, since they can't find any more people WILLING to help, they're kidnapping all the newer trainers and making them see things their way, saying how they promise they'll become world renoun trainers and have whatever pokémon they want, and all that stuff. I don't want any of that... I don't actually go out and train pokémon like most people. I like raising them from where they're babies and watching them grow up... The Rockets made my father, Sanimi, join them and they found out about me, I can understand what pokémon are saying, and have a 'special bond', as it's been said, with them. The Rockets want to use me to steal powerful pokémon and train them so they'll obey only them..."

Arti blushed as she realized she'd absently leaned up agaisnt Gary with her head on his shoulder. "Uh, sorry!" she said quickly pulling away. "I guess lack of sleep.. eh heh heh..."

Gary pulled her back and made her lay her head back on him. "It's okay," he smiled. "Take a nap if you're tired. I'll wake you up if I hear them comin-"

Gary stopped and noticed Articuno seemed to be unhappy with him toughing Arti. The bird stared Gary in the eyes, not moving then finally layed down, cooing to itself.

"Don't mind her," Arti yawned, closing her eyes. "She doesn't like people in general. Team rocket killed her mother when they were trying to catch her. Articuno's been a crab ever since, I can't say I blame her but she should be hateful to everyone like she is."

Gary tried to ignore the articuno but glanced up now and again, expecting it to lash out and try to peck his head off or something. He cuddled Arti up close and rested his head against hers. "Wha'?" he said lifting his head up and listening. "Eevee, is that you?"

"Wee..." Eevee replied half asleep and drug herself onto Gary's lap. She walked in a circle then fell over dead to the world so was so sound asleep.

Suddenly there was a sound outside the door. Similar to a barking noise. Gary looked towards the door curiously. He moved Eevee so that she was sitting next to Arti then slowly got up and came close to the door. "Who's there?!" he demanded, trying to sound like he wasn't scared, even if he was.

From the other side of the door he heard another bark. "Air! Air!" followed by someone telling him to stand clear and take arti with him. He was shocked that the people on the other side even knew who was in there, but he didn't complain, if they were there to help, he was happy.

Suddenly a blast of fire came shooting though the cracks along the sides of the door, Gary grabbed Arti and the two pokémon and dragged them quickly out of the way, waking them all up in the process. Arti snarled some complaint then screamed at the door suddenly flew into the room. Alarms suddenly started sounding. As the two kids and pokémon looked up they saw a man with blond hair standing in the doorway with an odd messed up pokémon at his side.

"Daddy?" Arti asked, looking totally confused. "Huh?"

"It's okay, Sweetie." her what she thought was father replied. "I'm here to help... even if it seems not like me at all, hmm? Well, ome on, we've gotta get going. The Rocket Gang will be on our tails in no time."

Gary quickly grabbed Eevee and Arti grabbed her articuno by the wing, pulling her along. Her father looked down at the pokémon beside him then down the hall. A group of Rockets were already there. "Aireon, atom force!"

Aireon jumped into action and stared down the rockets, suddenly the building began to tremble then the floor came up from under the Rockets and sent the flying back to where they'd come from. At the same time, the attack blocked off that route so they couldn't be followed. Sanimi signaled the kids and pokémon to run off ahead. "Aireon, look after em, there's something I've gotta go do."

(Note, it's switched to older Gary and Arti now)

"Hmm, witch button to push..." Arti smirked, her fingers wandering over a panel in front of her, the main power source for the Prussian Labs. "Heh, I'll just push em all! Nah too risky, we need time to escape and let other people get out too."

She looked over at Gary and smiled. She quickly typed in an access code to the core memory/genorator and started sifting though files, she copied all the information she thought could be used for non evil purposed onto a CD and pocketed it. After she finished she wiped the memory of the computer, causing an alarm to sound that it was being tampored with.

Gary grabbed her arm. "We've gotta go!" he yelled, trying to pull her off. "Arti, come on!!"

She pulled away. "You go, I'll catch up. I have to set the selfdetination still, I'll be out in a minute, I promise."

Gary kissed her on the cheek. "Fighting with you is no good I guess. You'd better be out in a minute or else."

She nodded. He teleported from the room and off to safe distance from the explosion, leaving Arti to work. She quickly set the detination time to 30 seconds and was about to teleport away but she was grabbed from beind. She turned to see who it was and came face to face with the Sanimi of the current time.

"Sanimi!" she yelped, shocked he was even around, her father had told her he wasn't in the lab at the time she was going to explode it. He lied... she though He knew he was here, he WANTED me to kill him... So he couldn't cause any more damage in the future...

"Well, what the hell have we here?" Sanimi grinned, holding Arti so her back was to him, and he held her arms. "You seem like you're one of my creations, and a pretty one at that."

Arti broke free of his grip and looked Sanimi in the eyes. "You've always said I'm pretty, and I'm one of your creations, but I'm also your daughter you bastard. Déestinée Isami Nakido, at this time, eight years old, blond hair, chocolate brown eyes, now I'm a freak of nature because of something you did to me."

Arti was trying to intentionally scare her father, trying to set him straight on what he was doing wasn't right. She quickly glanced at the time to see how long she had left. Fifteen seconds.

Sanimi's eyes were wide, and he seemed confused. "How do you know my Dées?"

"I AM her." Arti replied. "Only from four years in the future. I came back with the pokémon you're in the starting stages of making now, a time travel one, soon to be called Lunéon. Don't believe me? I can easily have you taken to the future as proof, but we've got 5 seconds left, I suggest you shut you're mouth and we fly."

Arti teleported Sanimi away then was about to teleport herself. Before she did she glaced at the time, 1 second. As she turned to look up and teleport, she noticed someone was still in the building, her mother...

Arti cried out and made a dash for her mother, but she couldn't be heard over the sound of the alarms. "Momma!!" she cried, as the explosion began, with her and her mother trapped inside.

"ARTI!!" Gary screamed, seeing the explosion, but Arti was no where to be found. "You BITCH! You lied! You said you'd be back! You promised me!"

Sanimi was at his side, looking as if he was horrified with what had happened to Arti before she came back. "This is all my fault, isn't it?" he asked Gary. "I'm the one who changed you both... I helped the Rocket Gang with their evil plans... And for this I lose my daughter from the future... and my wife."

He dropped to his knees crying. Gary looked down at him, feeling sorry for him. He knew Sanimi wasn't as evil deep down as he had seemed before. After befriending the future Sanimi he could see good in the one of that time. "I'm going over to the lab to look for survivors..."

Gary spread his wings and flew over to the lab, He circled once though the smoke and ashes, then landed where the entrance had been. "Please be alive..." he almost cried, hoping Arti would be alright.

An hour after he began to search, he finally found Arti, she was laying over Isashi, her mother. Isashi groaned as she woke up, and screamed at the sight of Gary.

"Ack! It's okay, calm down! I'm here to help!" Gary explained. "Are you okay?"

Isashi nodded and realized someone was at her side. "Oh my! What? She's the one that saved me..."

She sat up and shook Arti slightly. "Is she okay? I owe her my life..."

Gary picked up Arti and brushed her hair from her face. "Arti? You okay?"

Arti made a faint moaning noise and moved her head a bit. She was alive, but was hurt. Gary cuddled her close and kissed her cheek. "Isashi.. Get her to a doctor.. I'll be back but I've got something to do. Oh," Gary was about to leave but he stopped. "Your husband is out in the field over there." he pointed to where Sanimi was. "I suggest you go check on him, he was crying like a baby.."

Gary smirked as he teleported off.

(switched to younger Arti/Gary again =P)

Arti jumped for joy, happy to be free from the rockets. Her and Gary were outside, far from the Rocket Head Quarters. Sanimi hadn't joined them yet but he had made Aireon take then to a safe place he'd planned out before hand. Suddenly somone appeared before then causing both kids to scream and Aireon to bark happily.

"Hey, pup!" the person that just arrived smiled, rubbing the pup's head. "You okay girl?"

Aireon nodded and licked his face. Another pup walked from behind the guy and barked.

Arti stepped forward and shook her fist in the guy's face. "Why are you anyways?! This isn't you're pokémon it's my daddy's so go away you freak!!"

"Silly Arti, you've been the same since I met you." he smiled and looked at Gary. "I'm you, you know? From the future."

Gary's youngerself's eyes widened and Arti made a face. "Impossible." she said, giving him a funny look. "You look nothing like him." She pointed to little Gary.

The older Gary laughed. "Well, there's no real way to prove it is there?" he smiled. "Short of taking you to the future with Lunéon here but that's all changed now."

Arti and younger Gary both had odd looks come across their faces. The future Gary seemed to de-age a bit and his pokémon parts were fading. He looked back to where his wings were but they were gone now. "Er, Guess this is a side effect... your future has been changed so the alterations are taking effect on me now."

Arti fell back, fainted where as the younger Gary stood in shock. Even Aireon was now a little Eevee again, chasing her own tail happily.

"You really are me..."

"Yeah, I am. Well... I guess that's how it works out, or is it you'll be me? Well, I should get to my point, if I guess right I'll be gone altogether in a bit." Gary handed his youngerself a pokéball. "Here, keep this, it's Lunéon's here. He shouldn't disappear like the rest of us since he can control time and how it works, I want you to look after him for me, okay?"

Younger Gary took the pokéball and looked speechless. "'Kay..." he absently said. "I'll take really good care of him, and Eevee too." He looked back at Arti. "I take it you and her future self don't know each other, do you?"

"Not ture at all." The other Gary replied, smirking. "I knew here in the time I was from, she was my girlfriend. And going to have a baby actually..."

"You made her pregnant?! I mean, I did, or, um, will!?!?"

"Yeah, heh heh.. I dunno if it'll be the same though... After all, it's you who makes the choices now, you control how things work out. And I'm sure they'll work out fine from now on."

Gary from the future faded away with his eevee, leaving the Gary of that time with his Eevee and now Lunéon... Along with a fainted Arti.

"Ack! Arti!" he finally realized she was fainted and turned to look after her. "Arti! Are you okay? Wake up!"

Arti groggily sat up and rubbed her head. "Huh? What happened? Whoa... What a dream THAT was... Some crackpot freak was here from the future but... it was you!" she pointed to Gary, who only smiled.

"Yeah, I heard you talking about it in your sleep." he lied. "But it was only a dream Arti. We all know that isn't possible."

She nodded the stared at Lunéon. "AHH!!! It was real! It was wasn't it!! you lied to me!!" She stood up and poked Gary in the cheast as she continued to yell.

If this is what she's like in the future, he thought, jokingly. Then I pitty my future self.