This is the newly edited and revised Outbreak! So welcome one and all to the thrilling horrific adventure of my insanity trip! This maybe be re-edited again in the near future because of short preparation and limited beta work.

"Darwin! Where the blast is that Petri dish I asked for?" An elderly man shouted at the young and nervous new assistant.

"Right here, M-m- Mr. Wyse," he cried out, his nerves were frayed and he had been working non-stop to help the professor complete this break in helping pokemon health.

"Well hurry up!" The Professor now known as Mr. Wyse told the newbie as he carefully and expertly mixed a combination of chemicals that were specifically selected for their adaptation and healing properties.

Darwin ran a hand through his slightly greasy dark brown hair, fidgeting as he thought to himself, I really need to get rid of these cowlicks. His hand felt awkward against the odd directions of his tousled hair. He was quickly brought out of his thoughts when another yell could be heard.

"Darwin! You good for nothing oaf! Get that Petri dish I asked for now, or this project and your job will be cut," the older science Professor threatened, his fist high in the air to prove his point.

Darwin gulped and somewhat sprinted towards the table that held a small mini refrigerator. He pulled the cool door handle open and glanced at its content with a groan. In his messy rush the day before to watch the bidoof migration, he had forgotten to label the Petri dishes he was assigned. He scanned each dish with a skillful light green eye and noted that every one of the dish looked exactly like the last. Sweat broke out on his forehead as he heard the thundering of shoes hitting the cement floor coming closer.

Darwin's nerves began to cringe as he though of the consequences of his irresponsible behavior. If he snatched the wrong dish the project would be completely ruin and his new job gone! But if he told the professor what had happened he job would be gone still and he would have a angry professor after him! Darwin silently then wished that he could have joined the Jiggly Puffers Band when he was younger. That might have saved him from this job that threatens to harm his sanity. Darwin finally gained enough courage and hesitantly put a hand into the fridge and picked up a random cool Petri dish and carefully brought to the impatient Scientist.

"Finally." The white haired man mumbled. The assistant didn't reply and with a slight frown returned to his desk to finish his notes on the current migration of the bidoof going from the Eterna Forest toward Lake Verity.

Professor Wyse quickly opened the dish and slid it next to a test tube filled half way with a strange bubbly purple liquid. His work that he had been experimenting with for the last two years was about to be completed! Prof. Wyse carefully, with the tips of his fingers, picked up the dish and began to scrape the top of what should have been stem cells with a small metal loop instrument. He then took the loose 'cells' and shook them into the purple liquid's test tube.

He rotated between stirring clockwise and counter-clockwise to make sure all was dissolved and evenly distributed.

"Alright, let's get this show on the road!" Prof. Wyse exclaimed excitedly with a smile. His work if successful could possibly give him a Pokebell Peace Prize! Or better yet he will be world renowned scientist for this simple discovery of creating a immunity shot! A simple shot that would cure burns, frostbites, poison, and more for years with only one dose! Mr. Wyse quickly calmed himself down but can't seem to wipe the grin off his face as he composed himself and walked past his assistant.

Mr. Wyse went over to the lab's sanitation station and opened one of the wooden steel drawers searching for a hypodermic needle for his subject. "Darwin! Get the pidgey and gloom prepped for the final stage." The cheerful old man called out, pacing back to his small office and uniformly prepared the shot.

Darwin obeyed sullenly pulling two pokeballs out of his drawer next to him and quietly went to the back of the small lab where a minor battle ground and already caged pokemon were set up. As Darwin passed the cages a few pokemon who were awake gave soft calls to him who gave a small smile in return. As he released the pidgey and gloom onto the field, the freed pokemon gave their respective calls of, "Pidgey! And Gloooom"

The professor soon appeared beside Darwin and the assistant gave both pokemon a vitamin pill to boost their energy. Prof. Wyse calmly went to the flying type and pinned him down. The pidgey in alarm began to frantically wriggle trying to get out of the professor's hold but to no avail. Mr. Wyse steadily began to stroke the bird's head and calm it down and when the moment was somewhat at peace he gave the selected pokemon the shot painlessly into his wing. The elder man waited a minute before getting up and letting the pidgey go, watching closely for a reaction.

The bird gave a twitch and slowly but surely stood wavering on its feet. The Professor gave a approving nod and noted that the pidgey's eye had began to change colors rapidly. Suddenly the pidgey started to flap its wings violently yet never rose off the ground, it ruffled it's feathers briskly and almost instantly turned itself into an angry feather ball.

"Quite possibly a minor side affect." Professor brushed it off and continued to go on with the plan.

Darwin, who was beside the older man, swiftly took a step back as the pidgey glared and snapped viciously at the two humans.

"Mr. Wyse, I think I picke-"Darwin began, the guilt in the pit of his stomach began to gnaw on him like a growlithe with bone.

"Now, Now, Darwin. Let's not waste precious time and chatter. Let's start and see if my works for these past seven years have been worth it!" Prof. Wyse hushed the young man before he could continue. Mr. Wyse could feel it in his stomach. This was it!

Reluctant and slightly determined Darwin repeated the beginning of the sentence again but instantly stopped as he noticed the happiness and eagerness that shown brightly in his boss's eye. It dawned on him that what he was about to do would ruin this old man's goal. He would just kill the joy of this man with one simple sentence. This man had secluded himself in this dense Eterna Forest and work for seven years straight to complete his work and it took the older man almost half of those years to collect those ingredients. Now here was Darwin just clumsy and sloppy Darwin here to ruin it all. 'No..I will not ruin for this man,' Darwin declared to himself, 'Instead I will help him achieve it!"

"Okay. We can do this! Gloom use Poisonpowder!" Darwin told his new partner pokemon. The gloom obeys respectively and quickly shakes her head; spreading the poisonous spores towards the pidgey. Almost as quickly as the battle started the spores latch themselves onto the pidgey's feathers and the few lucky ones sail smoothly into his air ways while attacking the muscle tissue.

Prof. Wyse watched closely as the pokemon was poisoned. 'Come on…Come on!" He thought as the pidgey reacted to poison slowly by coughing a bit. The pidgey flapped its wing several times before taking into the air. "Pidgey, get back here! You stupid bird pokemon!" Darwin's excitement quickly turned to anger as the pidgey failed to follow orders and started to attack the gloom.

"Gloom, quickly dodge his attack!" Darwin told his pokemon partner as the enraged pidgey began to dive towards them. The gloom slowly understood and complied with her master's requests by taking a step back as the pidgey swooped past, his sharp beak almost grazing the top of the gloom's head. The gloom gave a small cry as he returned with his beak jutting out like a lance and striking her.

"Gloom use poisonpowder again and come back towards me!" Darwin told the gloom before searching for her pokeball in his enormous stained lab coat pockets. Gloom had just begun to stir up her spores once more when the pidgey had finally hit its mark. The gloom gave a whimper as the pidgey rose from the crash and violently latched himself onto her while scratching her barbarically with his razor sharp talons.

Prof. Wyse and Darwin instantly ran over towards the two pokemon who continue to fight. "Darwin! Hurry and return the gloom to her pokeball!" Mr. Wyse told the brown haired man before going towards the aggressive pidgey. "Come here, Pidgey. C'mon.-"Before the elderly man could finish, the pidgey looked up from it's prey and glared at the man with it's strange and changing eyes. The gloom underneath it gave a small cry of pain and fear as the professor grew closer with each step towards the psycho bird.

The professor stooped down and held out a gloved hand to the stoic pidgey who snapped fiendishly at the hand with a hidden hatred. The pidgey then glanced up towards the professor with a sick beaky smile and simple disappeared. Mr. Wyse blinked and before he could register that the bird had vanished a terrible pain erupted from his hand. Prof. Wyse screamed and looked down to his hand to find the pidgey clamped on it. The pidgey rabidly continued to bite again and again till Mr. Wyse was certain that the bird had reached the bone. In attempt to free himself from the deranged pokemon, Mr. Wyse flailed his hand up, down, and to random directions to throw the bird off.

It worked. The force of gravity and the strength of his hand hitting the pokemon's face were too much. The pidgey spread its tainted wings and with one great sweep, took off as the professor reached out to strangle it with his uninjured hand. "Shit!" he cursed as he checked on his heavily bleeding hand before watching the pidgey create more chaos by flying towards the caged pokemon.

While this was going on, Darwin was checking on the distraught gloom that trembled with fear. He slowly walked up to the gloom becoming wary of the pidgey as Mr. Wyse approached the hostile pokemon. Darwin shielded the gloom from the pidgey's vision and tenderly looked her over. All that he could see was several deep scratches from the bird's talons and a few shallow gashes from his beak. Darwin patted the scared gloom softly on the head and spoke gently to her as he scavenged his pockets for that blasted pokeball.

He had finally found it when the gloom began to make an odd 'urf' sound. The young adult could only stare when he noticed that instead of the black beady eyes that he was so accustom to were gone and a pair of neon green eyes with two vertically parallel neon pupils in each eye stared right back at him. "What on earth has happen?" He thought as the gloom became eerily quiet and continued to stare. "Gloom?" Darwin called to the pokemon, hesitantly petting it when it began to twitch erratically.

The gloom's eyes never left his and Darwin took a step back. "It's alright, gloom. I'll help you feel better as soon as you get in your ball." Darwin called out to his partner. He readied the ball and waited as the light flickered onto the gloom. Darwin closed his eyes as he waited for the wait of the gloom to transfer into the pokeball.

It..never…happened. He inhaled sharply as it appeared that the pokeball had failed to take the gloom. Just when he was about to call on to Mr. Wyse for help, Darwin heard a blood curdling scream coming from behind him.

"Mr. Wyse, are you alright?" Darwin shouted in concern, running over to his kneeling boss who clutched onto his blood stained gloved hand painfully. Darwin kneeled before his boss and took the injured hand into his own. "We need to disinfect this ASAP." Darwin concluded after a couple of minutes of checking the wound. The young man gently tugged the older man towards the sanitation station close to the caged pokemon.

"No! We can't go in there! Its where that deviled bird is!" Mr. Wyse roared, snatching his wrist out of Darwin's grasp.

"Lord, No!" Darwin cried while stepping in front of Mr. Wyse. "Professor! We have to stop it! And also the Petri dish I gave you must have been the wrong one! I forgot to label them yesterday! I'm sorry! But right now that pidgey is spreading whatever we created. It already affected the gloom! I tried to put her back in her ball but that failed!" Darwin yelled out as his breaking point was reached.

This was too much stress. First the angry professor, the infected pidgey now gloom and now he was sure that the pidgey was trying to infect the caged pokemon as they spoke! Darwin began to gesture frantically to the gloom and it creepily crawled towards them as it bled profusely from the scratches and gashes Darwin had momentarily check before. Mr. Wyse held Darwin's gaze for a second before he gave a heavy sigh and stepped toward Darwin.

Guilt free but still mentally unstable Darwin knew that he had did the right thing but…Was it too lat? He didn't have any time to think it through when a loud crash and several pokemon calls were heard from the Cage Room.

Darwin looked to his boss for any hint on what should the do. Prof. Wyse gave a nod towards the caged are and held on to his disabled hand's wrist before continuing on. "So if pokeballs don't work, we should try to contain the two subjects in cages to quarantine them from the other pokemon to kill off what this thing is. It will keep it from spreading and to see what we created." Prof. Wyse murmured as they finally reached the Cage Room entrance, sounds of growling, hissing, and a loud BANG came from the back of the room rose in volume with every second.

When the two scientists entered the room the first thing they noticed that all the cages- no they couldn't be the steel cages that Mr. Wyse had bought earlier that year—laid in an flimsy tin foil-ish condition on the floor.

Mr. Wyse rubbed his face hard with his able hand before clearing his throat. "We need to call the rangers or someone armed. This can not go very well. We-" The end of the sentence died in his throat as the sick gloom dragged itself into the room and with a Cheshire cat like smile focused on to the two human. The noise in the background started to die down. Darwin and Mr. Wyse fixed their eyes onto the gloom and the direction of the back room before deciding to go to the back room. Darwin inhaled a deep breathe before peeking around the edge to get a clear shot of what to expect when nothing appeared out of the normal. Darwin gave the professor a hand wave before going in the room cautiously and attentively.

In the cold stained tiled room lay at least two lifeless bodies, one a mutilated lopunny, the other a disfigured starly. Both died before their time was up. Darwin choked back a rise of vomit in his throat as the scene sunk in. The poor lopunny's body was ripped to shreds like the cages and throw about the room. Its head lay in a large puddle of its own blood. The starly looked more like a bean bag with splinters poking through it. The starly's wings were raw no skin was left it save for its tail and legs, also the wings were splintered like a piece of unlucky wood that had been struck by a bolt of lightning. The rest of its body was sunk in and looked more and more like an popped basketball by the minutes.

Darwin bent down and stroked the feathered corpse. Its feathers were smooth and damp with its blood. The sticky substance clung to Darwin's hand and he tried to rub it off on his jacket. "Prof. Wyse what should we do?" Darwin asked, he just wished that he could take it back. "Follow the tracks." Prof. Wyse put simply, pointing to the bloody paw prints that were left behind by the pokemon's murderers.

Darwin stood and followed Prof. Wyse into the very back of the Cage Room where the exit to the building was located.

"Do you think the pidgey could have broken the door using steel wing?" Darwin questioned his wise superior. Pokemon were strong, he knew that, yet are they stronger with that 'thing;' inside of them?

Prof. Wyse Shook his head and they turned in an angle, finding the door in shambles. The door lay in ruins sporting a large scrape with several large tears in the steel frame. "Clever and aggressive, I would say this was a outbreak of rabies but I have never seen rabies do that odd eye transformation." Prof. Wyse informed his employee as they both looked around for anymore victims. Unfortunately the caged pokemon had escaped along with the pidgey where outside they could infect even more pokemon.

"Mr. Wyse, Watch out!" Prof. Wyse heard his assistant yell in terror as something heavy crashed into his back and began to viciously bite him through his thin lab coat and blue shirt.

The older man gave a cry while trying to throw the menace off his back. "Darwin! Get out of here and warn the poke rangers!" He coughed as the creature's teeth scraped through a muscle in his lower back. Darwin in desperation threw himself onto the crazy predator and tackled it off of Mr. Wyse.

"Gloom, DOWN!" Darwin cried out as tears began to form in his eyes as he recognized the foe. Darwin had never in his life hurt a pokemon.

Yet right now it was either do or die. Darwin pulled his right hand back and began to pummel the gloom in the head while trying to keep it from shaking her head to release her spores. He just continued to repeatedly punch the once sane pokemon until he felt her go lax in his arms. Tears streamed down Darwin's face and slowly dripped off his cheek onto the lifeless body. With what little strength he had left, Darwin crawled back to his bleeding grabbed the professor's hand and clung to it as the warmth began to slowly fade.

"Darwin, you oaf…..Go….what..I…told…y-..y..you." Prof. Wyse whispered softly as Darwin leaned in to hear. "What should I do Professor," Darwin took a gulp of air before he finished, "Those things are still out there!"

"Stupid…You..f-f-figure…it…out..Life…doesn't..thro w you answers!" Prof. Wyse scolded as he released his final breathe.

Darwin could sit there as more tears ran down his face and on to his beloved professor. He had caused this, his professor's death, the release of a virus or bacteria that cause pokemon to go rapid, and the death of the pokemon and humans that will soon encounter it, and just for the stupid Bidoof Migration.

Darwin Winfield just caused what might be considered the end of the world.

I admit this chapter is a bit boring and it lags but only because its the prologue.. I am happy that I am able to post this story on my Birthday :D (again).

So Reviewers and Readers. Whatcha think?