Viral D.N.A

Deoxys.

A Pokémon that has been shrouded in mystery since the first sighting of it.
Nobody knows where it came from... or what it really is.

...Nobody but me...

But I'm so elderly now... tell me, can you keep a secret?
You must tell no one, except when you are as old as me, then you must tell one person- the truth cannot be lost about what..or who Deoxys really is.


I was young when it happened, my father had been gone for several years after mysteriously disappearing.
I joined Team Rocket, being young and stupid as I was.
I thought they were just a group of thugs- stealing Pokémon and trying to take over the region.
Never did I dream they were so much more.
Genetic experimentation was a huge part of their game, more than anyone who isn't a member could ever imagine.


Humans lined in tubes.

Men, women, children.

The endless tubes of green liquid held them all captive in a deep slumber.
As I was led among the tubes, I began to have a feeling.
All those disappearances... had Team Rocket caused them? And if so... was my father here too?
My question was quickly answered when I was led into a room- there in the centre, in another of the tubes- was my father.
I tried not to let on that I knew him, for fear they would do something.


They led me to the scientist in the centre of the room checking my father's organ functions.
He smirked slightly as he shook my hand.

"Welcome to Team Rocket, I understand your a fairly good scientist. If that's really so we have an assignment for you."

With this the man passed me a roughly drawn sketch of a strange creature, at the top of the page was written "Deoxys".
I looked at the sketch with interest, before looking to the man quizzically.

"You are to turn this man here into that creature."


I felt myself gag.
Experiment... on my own father... but I had to.
If it wasn't experiments they would surely kill him, or me.
They gave me a Virus sample they had scraped from a Meteor, and left.
I worked diligently over the years, experiments continued and slowly, ever so slowly, my father's body changed.
His skin turned Red and Blue-green, and his legs became long and shapeless.
Over time his chest indented slightly and his right arm shaped like a double helix.

Eventually he no longer looked human, the only clue to his ever being so was his left hand, which still had a human shape to it.


One day when nobody was in the lab, I broke into tears with my hand on the glass across from his.

"Father... I'm sorry..."

I suddenly heard the heart monitor begin to beep loudly, looking up to the strange pokemon I shivered.
It had opened its eyes.
It stared at me for a few minutes with a stern look- as though it knew.
I felt myself shiver.
My father was still in there, he knew what I had done.
He was angry, and rightfully so.

I backed away from the glass, avoiding eye contact and called down the head scientist.
I whispered into the phone.

"It's done... the Pokémon is just as you dreamed it would be..."






...flames... destruction...
What happened...?
I looked around, and in the destruction I saw it fly up into the atmosphere... never to be seen again...





Oh?
What's that?
Deoxys... has returned?
...My time is fairly short... please tell my father I'm sorry for what I did...
And never forget what I have told you, keep the truth with you and when it is time, pass it onto another.
The truth must never be lost.