The next morning, Mike was fully dressed and Kelly was walking beside him.  "Well, it should take us the rest of the day to reach Viridian City," Mike said.  He carried his spearow, whom he named Adolf for it's agressive nature, on his belt on the back of his pants.

Kelly's slim, hard body bristled, however, with the six pack showing through the fur.  Despite having the body of a 15 year old, Kelly still sported a six pack, growing into the fine figure of a predator.  His eyes blazed by watching the road.

"What seems to be the problem?" asked Mike.

Kelly answered in his usual girly sounding voice, "Someone seems to be following us."

Mike looked around, trying to be as sensitive.  "I kind of feel it too.  We better be careful."

Kelly continued to growl as they moved.  Mike looked all around, trying to discern where the threat was coming from.  They both moved guardedly.  The pair looked behind them, before them, and on their flanks. "Yeah, I think someone is following us," said Kelly.

The forest seemed quiet, very quiet.  Mike prepared his spearow pokeball.  He wanted to be prepared, no matter happened.  Soon, Kelly received a kick in the head.   Kelly fell down, and got back up and again and barked.   Mike spun around to see a Machop look like in a fighting stance.

What is a machop doing in a forest like this?  He looked around for the Machop's trainer, wondering if the trainer was around.  He opened his pokedex.

The pokedex reported: "Machop pokemorph; It continually undertakes strenuous training to master all forms of martial arts. Its strength lets it easily hoist a sumo wrestler onto its shoulders."  The pokédex showed a machop striking a pose.  So, this was a Pokémorph.

"Aren't you going to fight?" asked the machop.

"Where's your trainer?" said Mike.  "This dex says your kind normally hangs and trains in mountains."

"Nevermind about that!" said the machop.  "You wandered into my meadow.  Here I'm at the top!  This is my meadow, and you can't pass until you beat me!"

"Well, if you are going to be so disagreeable," said Mike.  "I'm going to capture you!"  Taking out his Spearow's pokéball and throwing out while Kelly recovered from the kick to the head.  Ninetales' were made of tougher stuff, after all they can live for a thousand years or more.

The pokeball opened, releasing his spearow.  The spearow came out crying out "SPEAR-OW!" 

"Spearow, peck!"

The Spearow made a dive and began to peck at the machop.  The machop ran around trying to avoid being pecked.  This went on for five minutes, until the machop got on to a rock and caught the spearow.  The machop suddenly tossed the spearow to the ground, knocking it unconscious.  It was still alive, barely.

"Spearow, return!" said Mike.  A ray appeared from the spearow's pokeball and the Spearow disappeared and returned to it's pokeball.   Then the machop glowed, and grew . . .  The glowing machop lost it's tail, and it became even more heavily muscled. It looked like it's bones grew thicker to support the building muscle.

"It's evolving," said Kelly.

"Is that bad?" asked Mike as the machop completed its evolution.  The light glowing from machop stopped, and it grew into a machoke.  The machoke was missing it's wrestling briefs and it too, was absolutely naked.  It looked closer to body building men, except for the skin was stretched so tightly around it's arms it seemed transparent.  The muscle fibers showed in a total of twelve slits around each arm.

"A spearow!  Is that all you got?" said the Machoke. 

Mike looked determined.  He commanded, "Alright, Kelly this is it!  Use all your forces and beat that pokémorph into submission!"

"As you wish, Master!" growled Kelly.  Kelly leaped at the machoke, mouth opened to bite, showing a row of nasty teeth.  Kelly roared, and when the two made contact, it looked like they were evenly matched.  One naturally with the strength of a hundred men, and the other with the supernatural powers of a kyuubi.

"You're good, standing up to me," said the machoke.

"I fight for my family and my Master," said Kelly. 

The machoke wouldn't stop talking as it soon manuevered the fight where he got Kelly in a choke hold. "All our Masters just want to use us," he said. "Soon, after he has no use for you, your Master will abandon you."

"Never!" said Kelly.  "Master Mike is my best friend, and there is no else I would have train me!"  Kelly threw the machoke away from.  The machoke flipped in the air and landed on its feet.  The machoke took a crouching stance.

"My Master will never abandon me," said Kelly.  "He never has."  Kelly took a stance, half blocking, half springing.

"You're wrong!" said the machoke.  The machoke sprung at Kelly.  The machoke looked like he was ready to tear Kelly apart.  Kelly opened his mouth and spitted many fiery embers at the machoke.  The machoke tried to block it was too late, kelly cartwheeled out of the way and machoke hit the ground.

The machoke got up and looked like there was dirt all over his face.  He looked more enraged than ever.  "Masters are useless to us pokémorphs!" he yelled.  "If you are going to be a slave to a trainer, your weaker than weak!"

"There is no one else I will entrust my training to," said Kelly taking another stance.  "I grew up with Mike, we went everywhere together.  He'd never betray me or my trust."

"You're living in a dreamworld!" said the machoke.  "My master abandoned me here, and I live to fight on my own!  This is my turf, and no one passes by until I say so!  YEEEAAARRRGGGH!"

The pokémorph threw himself at Kelly again.  Kelly just grinned to one side of his mouth, and his blazing red eyes glowed mightily.  Suddenly, the machoke was caught by an invisible hand, and lifted into the air and thrown down by some invisible hand like the seismic toss the machoke employed against Mike's spearow.

The machoke turned around, and looked up at the sky and began to cry tears.  Kelly walked over with his muscles rippling under his fur.  A wind passed by, ruffling his fur.  The naked machoke curled up and said:

"It's true, I am weak," he cried. "I'm so weak, I can't even beat the first advanced pokémorph I see.  My former trainer was right."  The machoke remembered how his prior trainer abandoned him as a machop when he lost three fights -- one against a sandshrew, one against a rattat, and the last against a mankey.  The trainer opened his pokeball and told him to go away because he was so weak.

"I am so weak, I am a disgrace to my race," he cried out.

Kelly walked over and said, "So, you lost three fights against pokemon and your trainer abandoned you here?  How reprehensible."

"Well, you beat me, so you can go now," the machoke cried. "Just go, just leave!  Leave me alone."

"You fought well," said Kelly. Kelly offered his hand out. "Let Mike be your Master, he can train you very well!"

The machoke hiccuped and then said, "I don't know if I can accept another Master.  Please, just go."

Kelly looked at Mike.  Mike shrugged.  "If he doesn't want to be trained, I guess we can go."

Kelly turned around and took up Mike's side.  His nine tails wagging behind him.  Not before long, the machoke looked at the pair, and got up.  He started shadowing the pair.  After all, he had been shadowing them since they entered his valley.  The machoke stayed a distance away as he followed the pair.  

---------------------------------------------------

"Poor thing, rejecting you to train him," said Kelly.

Mike replied, "Yes, it is.  He had been abandoned by his trainer since he lost so many fights.  It's not right for a trainer to abandon his pokémon."

"How much longer till we reach our home town?" asked Kelly.

"We are almost there," Mike said, seeing the Viridian City limits and a road they could follow.  The Jennys' check point was up there, the same one that Ash Ketchem was said to have passed.  Although Mike laughed at that one, he thought that it wasn't possible that Ash could have passed that particular point.  It was just an ordinary point.

"Yay!" 

"Huh?"

"I'm just so excited to reach Viridian City!  Pokemon center and a warm bed, here we come!"

"Yeah," he said.  He did espy a wanted poster, showing a man and a girl -- both human.  The poster said: "WANTED: for Pokemon theft and Anarchy."  The woman and man had an X on their left breast and chest, respectively, even though they wore dark gray.

"Come on, Master!" Kelly called.  "I could hear that warm bed, calling us!"

"Right!" said Mike.  "Just a minute!"  He studied the wanted poster, trying to get every angle.  As far as he knew, the girl and the man was far too much beshadowed around their faces to draw any features from them.  He decided to leave the poster alone and continued on.  They passed the checkpoint that Ash was said to have passed, it long abandoned by the Officer Jenny who manned it.  Ever since Team Rocket reformed, the government of the city reformed too, and brought the city much needed government freedom.  When they passed the checkpoint, a paper rolled by it in the wind, showing it was abandoned.  Ten minutes later, the now nearly naked machoke followed the pair, covering his modesty up with a makeshift loin cloth made from oakleaves sewn together.

The Viridian Pokemon Center had an "Ash Stayed Here!" sign.  "Hmm, Ash Ketchem must have been quite the celebrity," said Mike.

"Of course, silly," said Kelly.  "You remember your recent city history?  Ash Ketchem faced Giovanni here and managed to get his last badge to participate in the Indigo League.  Soon after, they said that Mewtwo escaped."

"I was not alive then," said Mike.  "My mom and dad remembers it, they said they met at the Indigo Championships."

"My race came into being just 3 years after that," said Kelly, the last in a seductive voice.  "And I was born about the same time as you."

"Oh brother," he said.

They entered the Viridian City pokemon center.  The pokemon center was torn down and rebuilt in the last ten years.  It still looked like one half of a Pokeball.  The pair entered the center.  There, one of the Nurse Joy's daughters managed the center.  "Hello, I'm Penny," she said.

"Nurse Penny?" Mike asked suspiciously.  Penny looked at Kelly as he walked in.  He mistook him for a female, since most nine tales were female.  She didn't see his sheath.

"Yes, that's me!  Are you and your pokémorph partner staying here tonight?" 

"Yes, we would like a room," said Mike.  "Preferably with two beds?"

"Well, most of our rooms with two beds are booked, so you can have a room with one bed," said Nurse Jenny.

"Uh, okay," he said, thinking that he was going to put Kelly into the Friend ball.  "Can you take care of my spearow?"

Mike put the ball on the counter.  And Penny smiled and said, "Of course we can, what happened?" 

"We battled a machop that turned into a machoke.  He give my spearow a rough thrashing."

"You should watch out more," Penny said.

"Well, we tried, but he said that we couldn't pass unless we beat him in a fair fight."

"Which we did," added Kelly.

"Alright, we'll see if your spearow is alright.  You're room is booked with the standard bed and breakfast option."

Kelly produced a card.  "Here, let me pay for it."

Mike looked at him, and shrugged.  Mike was never out of pokédollars, but it seems that tonight was Kelly's treat.   He wondered how Kelly had so many pokédollars.  He looked at the Friend ball that Kelly gave him to capture him with.  It had to have been so expensive.

As Nurse Penny took the spearow away, the pair walked to their room.  Mike held his Friend ball in his hand.  "Kelly, did you sell everything you had after your parents were kidnapped?" asked Mike.

Kelly replied, "Yes, I sold everything I had.  I burned all my bridges, coming to you. Because, I knew you could help me.  Now I'm yours to do with as you wish."  Kelly nuzzled against him.

Mike opened their room and went in. "Okay, but I reserve the right to have a shower." Mike put down his backpack, and left for the shower.  Kelly sat down, and looked at the mirror and told himself.

"Just a little more, just a little more Kelly," he said.  "He really loves you, because you and he are the best friends." 

That night, the machoke followed the pair to the Pokemon Center in Viridian City.  He had wished he had more to eat, and he was very hungry.  But something had driven him to follow both Mike and Kelly.  The machoke had went without food since the battle where he had lost to a ninetales pokémorph.  He managed to catch his food while in the wilderness, but here in the city you had to pay for your food.

He found them and the room they were staying.  He had watched the ninetales and its human trainer get into the same bed with each other.  The human wearing just a pair of jockey briefs and the ninetales' just as naked as he before he put on the loin cloth.  He watched the human put the comforter over them. 

The machoke sat down, with tears in his eyes.  The ninetales' trainer was being intimate with the pokémorph!  How he wished that his own trainer would have been just as intimate with him.  It would have made him a better pokémorph!  But he was summarily dismissed from his service being deamed too weak.  The machoke sat down, crying again.

When Mike was sound asleep, Kelly put his plan into action!  He quietly removed the tighty-whiteys by pulling them down and off Mike's person, making him as naked as he. There was just a little bit of a warning that he might wakeup, but the fifteen year-old human just stayed asleep.  Kelly then laid down on top of him, holding the underwear in his right hand. "There, Mike, someday you will travel as naked as I am," he said. "That would be so awesome, both of us free!"

Kelly situated himself so that his sheath happened to lay on Mike's loins.  In a way, even if they weren't going to have sex yet, he could lovingly cover his human trainer in his own fur. "I love you, Mike," whispered Kelly. "I love you very much.  I have always loved you.  That's why I let you capture me and make me your slave."

He closed his eyes, sleeping soundly with his trainer in his embrace.