The blast knocked all those hit by it silly for a few moments. Normally, that wouldn't have happened, but Pikachu's attack caused the Emerald to release a massive wave of Chaos Energy. Most of the effects of that wave wouldn't be obvious for some time, for even warped by Chaos, trees and plants grew at their own rate.
But for the animal life present, the effect was much more... dramatic.
"Chuu..." Pikachu moaned as he rolled off his back. "What hit me..." Strangely, the fact that he was speaking human didn't register right away. Rather, it was the sight of his hands. Not forepaws any more, but real, four fingers and an opposable thumb hands propping him up.
Pikachu lifted one up, and experimentally wiggled his fingers. Unsurprisingly, his fingers wiggled.
Pikachu was freaked out, all the same.
"AAHHH!!" he screamed, and instinctively stood up. He nearly toppled over, for although Pikachu had much practice walking upright, his new legs were much differently proportioned.
But his little yell woke the others all the same.
Pikachu was the saw as the rest of Ash's pokemon discovered the same thing he had. Like Pikachu, Bayleef, Totodile, Cyndaquil, Bulbasaur and Noctowl were now all humanoids, between three and five feet tall. Togepi had also been hit, but the baby pokemon hadn't changed too drastically because of it, still looking like a baby in an egg.
Ash and Misty were also roused as the various no-longer pokemon gave shouts of surprise and no little amount of fear. And they were staring at the others. Pikachu noticed them, and stumbled over to them. "Ash... are you all right?"
"Pikachu? You can talk?"
Pikachu's eye's widened as he finally realized that he, and all the others, were speaking human, not pokespeech. Pikachu slumped. "Great, that stupid gem made us all like Meowth..."
Then Misty asked something that got everyone's attention. "What are those things?!"
The others stopped to look at what Misty was indicating. Around them, floating in the air and slowly spinning, were what appeared to be large rings made of gold. Down the path a little ways there was what looked like an unlit red and blue lamp post. And in the sky, just within jumping distance, floated some kind of orb. Pikachu could tell something was inside it, but not what.
Bayleef looked at the purple gem still wrapped in her vine. "What did this thing do to us all...?" she asked in a small voice.
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