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Anima Ex Machina is an ongoing Pokémon fanfiction written by JX Valentine (alias Jax Malcolm). While apparently serious on the surface, its main goal is, as the author herself puts it, "to read like a cheesy, B-rated sci-fi movie." Probably while hitting every trope on the way down.The story focuses on Bill, a young but absurdly unlucky Pokémon researcher (and noticeably the author's favorite character in the franchise) who has been recruited onto a top-secret government project to study an alien Pokémon. However, by the end of the first chapter, he's kidnapped by Team Rocket and forced to become the host of the aforementioned Pokémon, which transforms him into a human-alien hybrid. After a series of rather unfortunate events, he finds himself in Hoenn, dragged into a war between human survivors (most of whom want him dead) and the hostile alien Pokémon (who just want to hurt him… a lot). In the meantime, Team Rocket wants to add him to their Pokémon army, a mysterious organization known as the Committee plots to use him as a guinea pig, and his own father manipulates the strings in the background for his own as-of-yet-unknown agenda. Oh, and the parasite sharing his body is not only sentient but also a calculating sociopath who prefers withholding as much information from its host as sanely possible. Yes, Bill's life pretty much sucks.So far, the fanfiction spans over thirty chapters of one book (eighteen in an earlier discontinued version), with a second book mentioned to eventually exist. The majority of the most current version of the fic can be read on a smattering of different forums and outlets, but the most reliable updates tend to be on the author's own website
 and Serebii.net.
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