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When Bill finally shrunk back to normal and the group went back to Lostole, night started to come.
The dinner at the inn was subdued, for they preferred to keep secret what happened at the lake.
But once alone, they started talking about it.
"You think they suspect something?" asked Anton.
"Impossible," answered Don. "We were the last people who went to the lake today. Until tomorrow morning, we're the only ones to know that the lake is pure again."
"And you can bet it'll be crowded as hell then," commented Arno.
"Then we'll have to be the first there!" exclaimed Al. "Without the fog, it'll be easy to finally find that monster!"
Everyone agreed.
Everyone except Cid, for he wasn't here.
Bill noticed it, and went looking for him.

He was just outside.
"Cid, what are you doing?"
"Nothing," grumbled the Emboar.
"Something's wrong?
"Nothing's wrong," grumbled again the Emboar.
Bill rolled his eyes.
"Cid, stop it. There's something wrong, and it's obvious. So what is it?"
"That's what happened this afternoon that's wrong, that's what," finally snarled Cid.
"What?! Oh, what, you're pissed because you lost that 'feud' - and here Bill airquoted - with Al?"
"No, it's not that."
"Then it's what??"
There, Cid snapped.
"I'm a scientist, Bill! You know what science is?! It's, between other stuff, strict rules! And some of these rules state that IT'S MOTHERFUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO GROW BIGGER THAN A MOUNTAIN AND TURN BACK TO NORMAL LIKE IT'S NOTHING!!"
Bill stepped back, surprised by this sudden outburst.
"It's impossible to pull mass out of nowhere and send it back to nowhere like you did! And the Square-Cube law?! You should have been crushed by your own weight!"
"Oh, come on, Cid! You know how it is possible!" protested Bill.
"Yeah, God stuff and whatever, and that's the other thing! Gods should be impossible by science too! All that should be impossible, and yet it happens! The only possible explanation is that science is wrong!"
The anger in the Emboar started to fade, replaced by something else.
"All my life I was fascinated by science. I always studied it with passion. Always counted on it to help me. And now... All destroyed... An entire wall of my convictions shattered... That's... That's just depressing..."
And he let himself fall on a bench.
Bill found himself at a loss for words. What could he say? What could he do?
"Oh, quit your whining!" suddenly said someone.
It was Al, who had followed Bill and stayed behind to listen.
"Oh, came to rub it in?" snarled angrily Cid.
"No, came to make you get a grip!" replied the Gengar.
The wording surprised Cid, who found nothing to reply. Al jumped on the opening.
"Yeah, science is wrong on that. So what?! That doesn't mean it's wrong on everything! Besides, we're talking here about physics science! I told you, archeology is a science too, and it and I won that 'feud', to take Bill's word, so in a way, science is right about that as well!"
Cid was looking at the archeologist, surprised.
"And aren't you giving up too easily? Your wall of convictions is shattered? I went through that too, and you know what I did? I rebuilt it! Do the same!"
A silence.
And finally, a small smirk appeared on Cid's lips.
"Heh. I didn't expect a pep talk from you."
"I'm still a bit mad about my brother and the argument," smirked back Al. "That doesn't mean I'd enjoy seeing you have a breakdown."
"Thanks. And you're right. When I think of something to build, I don't think "That can't work", I think "How can I make it work". I should have done the same for that."
He stood, feeling better.
"And I'm going to do it!"
"That's the spirit!" said a relieved Bill, slapping him on the back.
And leaving his hand on the Emboar's back.
"Er... Bill?" asked Cid as the mega Swampert stayed with a weird expression on his face.
That eventually turned into a wry smirk.
"And I think I know where you could start..."
"What are you..."

A few minutes later...

Al groaned.
"You know, I thought we were supposed to try and keep this secret."
Bill chuckled awkwardly.
"Well... I got carried away."
"I noticed," laughed Cid.
"And it's a wonder the village didn't notice," replied the Gengar.
"They're all fast asleep," soothed Angus.
He and the others eventually came out of the inn...
To find their expert in security systems was now as humongously titanic and impossibly bulked up than Bill had been a few hours earlier.
Bill, from his vantage point (Cid's shoulder), managed to explain that he found out he could grow other people, calming their surprise, but not Al's exasperation.
"There's light at some windows!"
"They just forgot to switch it off," replied Clyde. "I checked, trust me."
"How did you... right, former thief, forgot."
"How did you find out you could do that?" asked Cid, his voice making the sky quake (but not the slumber of the villagers).
"Well, I sort of feel my body, in a 'I can grow this' way. And when I touched you, I felt you in the same way. Sort of."
"That's very specific," snarked the Emboar. "We'll have to study this in detail too. But right now, I'm too busy making an observation."
"About what?" asked Bill.
Cid grinned wider and blushed a bit as he flexed a monstrously gigantic arm.
"About how fucking good that feels!"
Al grumbled a bit more, but decided to just give up at this point. As long as no one awoke...
In all this, Ralph didn't say a thing. He was too busy staring and drooling at the mountain of pure power and sexiness his boyfriend had turned into.

FINALLY!!!!
 TakaTaka having his time devoured by his job, I decided to call upon  MakeEmBig who does some real good muscle Pokemon (and others)!
Hope it doesn't bother you... Who am I kidding? As long as there's macro and muscle, it won't bother you!

Art by  MakeEmBig
Colorless original here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21250970/
Color by  Bulgefan
Cid © me
Emboar © Game Freaks