Pokemon Fan Fiction ❯ Of Wild Hearts and Pok�girls ❯ Clever like Cid, Wise like Washu ( Chapter 4 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Kid Loose (squall2k184@yahoo.com)
It's been a long road
Getting from there to here
It's been a long time
But my time is finally near
And I will see my dreams come alive at last
I would touch the sky
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No they're not gonna change my mind
'Cause I've got faith of the heart,
Going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
No one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star
(I've got faith)
(I've got faith)
(I've got faith)
(I've got faith)
I've got faith—faith of the heart!
**Faith of the Heart**
**Star Trek: Enterprise opening theme**
Chapter 04: Clever like Cid, Wise like Washu
+Adults Only+
"Icarod Mathers…"
Leon, San, and their entire respective harems gaped in awe at the fifteen-foot bronze statue of the world's first tamer, who gazed off into the distance in a pose that suggested he saw something bright and hopeful beyond the horizon. Beside him loyally stood an equally tall statue of his Growlie, the pokégirl looking lovelier than almost any Growlie that any of them had ever seen.
"I'm glad we stopped on our way out of town to see this thing," said San cheerily.
"Me too." Leon looked upon the statue of Mathers and he felt a longing growing within him. Mathers was renowned and beloved the world over, and that's what the boy wanted too.
"Mathers discovered how to tame pokégirls, which turned the tide of the Revenge War," Bright stated factually to both Pyre and Lilith, knowing full well that the feral-borns wouldn't have much knowledge about history.
"Good thing he did!" Aiko piped up. "If Sukebe had won, then I might not be friends with San right now!"
That said, the Kitsune threw her arms around San and hugged her close, cooing softly with the warmth of their tender embrace. San, taken aback at first, smiled and placed a hand on the back of Aiko's head, stroking her hair lovingly.
Something dawned on Leon just then, and he began digging in his tamer-pack. "Almost forgot, I bought Lilith and Pyre some uniforms with the prize money from my gym battle with Mitsuka." He retrieved said 'uniforms' and handed them to the pokégirls. "Try 'em on, girls!"
Lilith and Pyre slipped into their new clothes and stood there awkwardly as Leon admired them in the schoolgirl outfits he had bought for them. They were cute little things, white button-down dress tops with blue pleated skirts and matching stockings.
"Uh… thanks, boss," said Pyre, clearly unsure of what to think of this gift.
Her harem-sister, on the other hand, seemed to take to the new threads quite fondly, curtsying and twirling about so that her tamer could get a good look at her in it from all sides.
While the younger Strifes laughed at the little Eva's display of vanity, a little ways off stood Keisuke, leaning against his parked silver and dark blue hover-bike with an indiscernible air about him. His eyes snapped open then, and he looked upon his siblings and their pokégirls with a neutral expression. "That's enough," he said to them. "It's time we got back on the road."
"Okay, Oniichan!" San called back. "Well 'girls, it's time to go back in your 'balls," she informed her harem as she withdrew their pokéballs. "After all, we all won't fit on Oniichan's bike."
"Oh, man! I'd almost rather walk!" Kané pouted just before she was recalled. Bright and Violet nodded their agreement before they were recalled as well.
Leon called back his own pokégirls rightly, though Lilith looked a bit disappointed as she went, probably because she wouldn't get to show off her new shirt anymore today. Anyway, that left only Aiko.
As San prepared to recall her, the fox held up a paw and the girl paused. Her tamer halted for the moment, Aiko ran up and stole a kiss from her tamer's lips, embracing her and pressing her body tightly against the girl's. After this moment's affection, Aiko pulled away from the girl and nodded her readiness to proceed. San acknowledged her and placed her back in her 'ball.
And so, with their gear packed up and their pokégirls tucked safely in their pokéballs, the Strife children departed Thrill City. Keisuke and San rode out in the front on the eldest Strife's 'bike. Leon trailed behind them in their wake, enjoying his new hover-board.
It was on the outskirts of town that Team Strife spied a large number of tents, trailers and other temporary domiciles placed deliberately in proximity to each other. Finding this a bit peculiar they all dismounted their respective vehicles and investigated further. As they drew up close they found a large collection of people in lab coats running about all over the grounds. Keisuke caught one by the arm, stopping the man dead in his tracks.
"Excuse me, sir," he began. "Might I ask what all of this is about?"
"That's an interesting question, young man," the lab coat garbed gentlemen replied as he shrugged off Keisuke's hand. "This was originally a group of researchers brought in to deal with the environmental destruction which lead to the recent Rocket incident. However professors Cid and Washu got into some kind of an argument and now they've decided to settle it with an airship race from here to Fitness Town."
"An airship race!" both San and Leon said elatedly, bounding up beside their brother, both eager to hear more.
"Yup!" the researcher replied. "It sounds silly to me, but everyone here and in town are really excited about it. There're even betting pools on who people think'll win!"
"Wow…!" both Leon and San breathed with excitement and awe.
"Yes, very interesting," was Keisuke's simple reply. "Is there anyway we could tag along? An airship ride would cut substantial time off our journey, with the added benefit of not having to go through Full Mass to get to Fitness."
"I hear you loud and clear, man!" said the lab coat guy with an agreeing nod. "And you happen to be in luck. See, most of the professors' research staves have to stay here in Thrill, which means both airship teams are understaffed. I'm sure if you ask either Cid or Washu they'd be happy to take you on in exchange for picking up the slack.
"As for me, I gotta be going. I'm attached to Washu's research team, and she's got me covering for her while she's setting up the race." With that the man was off, returning to his duties.
"We should definitely track down either Cid or Washu as soon as possible," said Keisuke whence the researcher had left. "We don't want to miss the opportunity for a free ride."
In an undisclosed location somewhere in Thrill City, Team Rocket member Jonah reclined in an easy chair and sighed dejectedly, his breath blowing a few stray strands of his long silver hair out of his face. It had been more than a week since he and his partner, Hexx, had been handed a most mortifying loss at the hands of the Strife children, and their boss was not happy with them. They had been ordered to sit tight until he called for them again, something that was easier said than done, as it seemed the entirety of the Thrill City Police Department was looking for them.
Jonah sighed again, hoping that the boss would call them soon. Preferably with an assignment that would take them out of Thrill City for a while, as it really wasn't safe for them there right now. They could scarcely even go outside without first dawning disguises, lest they be spotted.
Just then the videophone, which hadn't seen use in all that time, sprang to life and rang loudly. Jonah's brown eyes fell upon his spiky blonde-haired partner, Hexx, as she crossed over to the phone and switched it on. Both Rockets were surprised to see the image of their boss, the infamous Gendo Giovanni, appear on the screen.
"Boss!" exclaimed Hexx as Jonah sprang to his feet and joined her by the phone.
"Does this mean you've finally forgiven our failure?" Jonah asked, wide-eyed and expectant.
"That all depends on how you perform on this next assignment," the Team Rocket boss replied curtly. "I presume you've heard of the coming airship race between Professor Cid Inventis and Professor Washu Hakubi?"
"Airship race?" both Rockets inquired, shooting each other questioning looks.
"Sorry, boss, but we haven't been getting out much lately," Hexx added by way of apology.
"Well, the race is slated to kick off tomorrow," Giovanni informed them. "Our agents have been running underground gambling pools and have pulled in quite the pot. Of course, Cid is the odds-on favorite, which is where you come in…
"You two are going to sabotage Cid's airship." And as he spoke, the Rocket boss glared at the two Rocket agents hard. "I'll be transporting a supply of pokégirls to help in the job momentarily."
No sooner had he finished this statement than the transporter device in the corner of the room sprang to life, generating six pokéballs. Jonah crossed over to the device, picked up one of the pokéballs and examined it closely, wondering curiously as to what kind of pokégirl was inside.
"(Well, only one way to find out)," he thought as he prepared to open the 'ball.
"I wouldn't, if I were you," warned Giovanni. "They're all Lamias."
"Lamias!" Jonah exclaimed, carefully placing the pokéball back on the transporter pad. Lamias are, after all, notorious for seeing male tamers more as a meal than as a potential mate.
"Of course!" Hexx piped up suddenly. "Professor Cid specializes in bird-type pokégirls, thus Lamias are the perfect pokégirls to counter his."
Their boss smiled and nodded, acknowledging Hexx, but then went stern again. "I'd advise you not to use them unless absolutely necessary." Giovanni's tone was deadly serious. "I'll leave the details to you, just make sure that Cid doesn't cross that finish line before Washu!"
That said, the monitor went dead, and Jonah and Hexx were left alone in the gloom on their one-room hideout to plot their next move.
Searching high and low, Team Strife eventually found themselves standing before the mighty airships that the professors would be flying. The younger Strifes gawked in awe at the impressive flying machines, and they ran around them, admiring them from every angle.
While walking about Leon happened upon a mechanic clad in a simple navy blue flight suit with a not so simple light blue scarf wafting in the breeze beside him. The man hunched over inside an access panel, working diligently at some last minute calibrations. Leon tapped this person on their back and asked: "Hey, buddy! You know where I could find Cid or Washu?"
That was when Leon got the shock of his life, as the young mechanic—who was about as tall as Leon himself—pulled his head out of the mechanism to reveal that said head, while looking for the most part human, bore a single conical horn in the center of the forehead, very long, stiff, rabbit-like ears, and bright red eyes. To top all of that off, what was visible of his skin seemed to be covered in short black fur. Other than these strange characteristics the person who stood before Leon looked for the most part human, with black hair that was short in the back but grown long in the front, covering half his face. He had a medium-lean build and a strong jaw. At first Leon had thought he had mistaken a pokégirl for a human, but upon closer inspection he realized that this person had a clearly masculine physique. Presented with these signs Leon had but one response…
"What the hell are you??"
When Keisuke and San heard Leon's shout they both came running to see what was the matter. Imagine their shock when they too spied the strange being the boy had.
"Daku here's an alien!"
Sauntering up to them all came a very short woman with long pink hair. As she walked she carried herself with the stride of someone who was confident to the point of being on the verge of arrogance. The strange being beamed when he saw the short woman, and ran over to greet her.
"Hey Prof. Washu! Looking sexy as ever!" said he as he looked upon the professor with a lusty sneer.
"Oh, Daku! You sure know how to flatter a girl!" Washu laughed, but stopped as she looked upon her guests. "Say! I know you! You're Kei the Blade, aren't you?"
"Indeed," said Keisuke, ever simple and to the point. "Accompanying me are my younger brother and sister."
"Say," San spoke up suddenly. "You said this guy was an alien. Do you mean he's extradimensional?"
"Nope! Extraterrestrial!" Washu corrected rightly. "Daku's from another planet."
That was when Daku's crimson eyes fell upon San, and he got down on bended knee, taking her hand in his and kissing it lightly. "Annata wo Daku is my full and proper name, though you, my dear, may simply call me 'Daku'."
San blushed deeply and covered her face with her free hand. Leon stuck out his tongue and made a faux-gagging motion, clearly put off by Daku's display of affection toward his sister.
"What exactly is he doing here?" Keisuke asked suddenly, and admittedly they were all quite curious about this visitor.
"Well, long story short, he's stranded here," Washu explained plainly. "I found him a few years back and took him in as my lab assistant. He's been a big help, even though he's not really a scientist. I've been teaching him, though, and he's a pretty quick study."
"I may not know much about this sciencey stuff but I am well versed in the ways of love," Daku said with knowing in his tone, drawing up close to San and wrapping a hand around her shoulder. The girl laughed nervously, obviously not sure what to make of the rabbit-eared alien's playful advances.
"Quite," said Keisuke, glaring at Daku with a look that screamed, 'get your paws off my sister or else!' The horned-boy quickly followed this incentive.
Leon felt awfully curious, wanting to know more about Daku, for like most boys his age he wondered very much about what was out beyond the stars. "Do you miss your home?" he asked the alien boy sincerely. "What's it like?"
Daku turned away from him, crossing his arms over his chest with an air of ire. "Hmph! You bet I 'miss my home,' mostly because it was a lot better than your backwater burg of a planet!" he said condescendingly. "You terrans! Your attitudes towards the beings you call 'pokégirls' are positively barbaric! On my world all women are treated like goddesses!"
"Now-now, Daku. Ours is not to judge," Washu chided her companion, who huffed but said nothing more.
Washu turned to the Strifes and shrugged. "He's been like that ever since I found him," she said, shaking her head. "I told him if he would become a tamer and manage to get a Cabbit to evolve he might be able to get home, but he said 'no.' I even offered to take him to the Edo League myself so he could catch one but still he refused."
"I'd never make a beautiful woman into my sex toy!" Daku blurted out haughtily. "I hate this place, but I'd rather be stuck here than sink to the level of you terrans!"
"Hey!" Leon cut in indignantly. "It's not our fault! They're programmed to need it or else they go feral!"
"Is that really so bad?" Daku shot back. "As I understand the pokégirls' social standing, they're nothing more than walking, talking property to you people! What's the point of intelligence if they have no say in anything?"
Everyone was rendered silent by this statement. No one, not even Washu, seemed to have a response.
"Just as I thought," Daku spoke up conceitedly. "I say, let them go feral! I, for one, would rather be dumb and free than a smart slave!"
*POP**SHOOM* and San's harem burst from their pokéballs, all standing protectively around their friend and mistress.
"That's not fair!" Aiko cried out first, taking the girl into a shielding embrace.
"We heard what you said and we gotta tell ya' that it's not true!" Violet added.
"San is our friend!" Bright offered as well. "She became our tamer to protect us, and we joined her to do the same."
Kané nodded in agreement with her harem-sisters. "That's right. She cares about us and we care about her!"
Daku smiled slyly at the gaggle of ladies. "Well, of course I would expect a lovely young woman like her to have a more enlightened attitude."
*POP**SHOOM* and then there was Angel. The white-haired Umbrea stood dutiful as ever beside Keisuke.
"It's no' just 'er, lad," she corrected, wearing a bright smile. "I follow Keisuke 'cause 'e's me lover, not me master."
Daku huffed. "If you say so, missy." He placed his hands on the back of his head and looked off into the sky.
At the same time Leon lowered his head, feeling shame well up within him. Lilith and Pyre hadn't come to his defense the way San's and Keisuke's pokégirls had. Did they not care about him? Would they be better off feral and in the wild, like Daku had said?
Daku tilted his head and glanced at the three tamers, looking upon them with a hard stare. "Admittedly I might take a pokégirl, but only if she wanted to come with me," the rabbit-eared alien confessed, a slight shaky timber to his voice. "I would never force a goddess to do anything against her will, of course."
"You speak as though you have someone in mind," Keisuke mused, cupping his chin in his hand and smiling knowingly at the alien.
Daku blanched and Washu laughed when they heard this. "He's got a crush on Cid's Cabbit, Dita!" declared the petite mad genius, making her otherworldly companion blush deeply.
San sniggered a bit at seeing Daku redden, and even Leon was roused from his pity-party to give a laugh. Keisuke, on the other hand, remained cool as ever.
"Interesting," he said plainly. "Anyway, the three of us and our pokégirls are here to ask if we could render our services as an airship crew to either you or Cid in exchange for passage to Fitness."
"Why certainly!" exclaimed Washu, beamingly. "In fact, there's enough of you that—if you don't mind being split up—a few of you could shack up with me while the rest take Cid's team."
"What's that, you crazy old broad? I thought I heard you call my name."
Just then Washu, Daku and Team Strife were joined by the tall middle-aged blonde inventor/pilot known as Professor Cid Inventis. Following just behind him were a pair of engineers dressed simply in blue jumpsuits and wearing large caps, pulled down low as though to obscure their faces. The pair also wore tamer-packs on their backs, and as Leon looked upon them he could almost swear that there were something familiar about them.
"Good ol' Cid! Looking senile as ever, I see!" was Washu's lighthearted response. "I was just telling these strapping young tamers that the two of us would be happy to take them on as our airship crews."
Cid eyed them all for a long minute, weighing the pros and cons of each of the Strifes. Finally he said: "Well, I call Kei the Blade!"
"Damn!" Washu cursed. "I wanted Kei!"
Keisuke acknowledged the middle-aged researcher rightly. "Alright, Professor," he said. "I would be happy to accompany you. My only condition is that you take on my little brother as well, as I have to keep a close watch on him."
"I'm not a baby, Oniichan!" Leon declared indignantly. "I can take care of myself."
"I'll say!" Cid added, throwing his hands on his hips and giving a laugh. "I recognize you from the news. You and y'er brother showed those Rockets what f'er last week!"
Cid had a good laugh about this, which covered the angry grumbles of the two engineers behind him quite nicely.
"Okay kid, you can tag along too," said Cid, and both Leon and Keisuke nodded in agreement with him.
"I still say I can take care of myself, but I don't mine riding with Cid," said Leon, crossing his arms in a vain attempt to look mature.
"What about you, Imotouchan?" asked Keisuke to the Strife Sister.
San tilted her head and laid a finger along her cheek, deep in concentration. "I think I'll go with Washu. After all, it seems I'm all she's got left," she stated simply. "Aside from Daku, that is."
"Uh, right!" Daku piped up. San had caught him off guard, for when he had seen Cid he had begun looking around, most likely trying to see if Dita was with him, which she was not.
"Well, if you all are gonna ride with us then start making y'er selves useful," Professor Cid said gruffly.
Professor Washu nodded in agreement. "We're not leaving 'til tomorrow, but we've got a lot of last minute preparations to make before the big day."
Keisuke smiled fiercely. "Well then, let's get started."
The work wasn't too hard, but there was a lot of it, both in Cid's and Washu's camps. San was lucky, as she had more pokégirls to help with the work than Leon and Keisuke combined, not to mention that Daku's alien physiology possessed strength and endurance to rival that of an Amachoke. Thus it seemed the male Strifes got the short end of the stick. Still, it was worth it for a free ride with these famous pokégirl researchers.
When the day was out and there work done, the teams settled down for a good rest. Over in the Inventis camp, the boys and their pokégirls sat around a collapsible table and prepared to enjoy a drink. Those two engineers from earlier didn't join them, however, though this went hardly noticed as those two had kept to themselves the whole time.
Cid tapped the tabletop impatiently. "Dita! Hurry up with those drinks!" he bellowed to his pokégirl. "Damn air headed Cabbit. This is why I prefer bird-types!"
"Coming, Professor Cid!" the Cabbit called back from her master's trailer, a few feet from the table where they all sat.
While waiting for the drinks, Leon took the opportunity to get something off his chest. He turned to Pyre and Lilith who sat beside him still clad in their new schoolgirl outfits. The boy wore a clear expression of longing on his face as he asked them quite plainly: "How come you 'girls didn't back me up the way Kei and San's 'girls did back there?"
Both the Charamanda and the Eva looked upon their tamer quizzically, blinking blankly at him. "What ya'll talkin' 'bout, sug'?" said Pyre. "Did we miss somethin'? I don't know about Lilith but I was takin' a nap until you woke us up to help with moving all that stuff."
"Really?" Leon said, surprised. Pyre nodded quickly. "You too, Lilith?" the Eva also nodded.
"What's all this about, boss?" Pyre asked, sincerity clear in her voice.
"Just answer me one thing," Leon said seriously, looking upon both pokégirls as he rarely had in this past week. "Do you two care about me?"
Both pokégirls were taken aback by their tamer's sudden frank question, and they blinked at him confusedly. "Well, of course we care 'bout ya', sug'! Why do ya' think I call ya' 'sug'' all the time?" said Pyre matter-of-fact.
Lilith nodded in wholehearted agreement, and Leon felt such pride and love swell up in him that he expressed it the only way he could…
He took both pokégirls into the tightest bear hug he could muster!
"We love ya' too, boss! Now could ya' let us go??" Pyre pleaded strenuously, Lilith groaning concurrence with her harem-sister.
Angel giggled at the trio. "Aren't d'ey cute?" she said, smiling giddily.
Professor Cid, on the other hand, blanched at this display. "Uff… gag me with a @#$%ing stick!" he jeered, sticking a finger down his throat to emphasize the point. "If this scene gets any sweeter I'm gonna need an insulin shot!"
"Quite," Keisuke said unenthusiastically, not really listening to him. "Now professor, I was wondering if I might ask, what is your grudge with Professor Washu?"
"Oh, her," Cid said gruffly. "Well, I got nothing against her personally, it's just that when she blew into town as part of the environmental detail we's got to talkin' and I found out she was designing a new type of airship engine." Cid scoffed, seeming amused by the idea of the diminutive scientist building an airship. "Well, then I told her that I was designing a new airship engine too, and she came up with the half-baked idea of us having a race to see whose design was better.
"The stupidest part about the whole thing is her ridiculous engine configuration," he continued, clearly incensed by his new rival. "She calls it a Mana-Drive, and boy is it dumb! The thing relies on magic and Magic-pokégirls for crying out loud! We all know how unreliable they are. I'd be surprised if the thing even flies!"
"Interesting." Keisuke nodded. "And what makes your engine unique?"
"I'm glad you asked that, son!" the professor replied haughtily. "Ya' see, my engine runs on the principle of Sub-Ether energy."
"Sub-Ether energy, huh?" Keisuke replied. "I thought that was all still theoretical?"
Cid suddenly coughed and sputtered, fumbling to regain his composure. "Well, umm, yes, well, ya' see…" he trailed off, obviously at a loss for words. "Ah, ya' got me! Technically it still is only theoretical, but I figure that still makes it more reliable than magic!"
Leon, thoroughly confused by all this, turned questioningly to Angel briefly. "What the hell are they talking about?" The pokégirl could only shrug in response.
"Besides," Cid began, looking up at the stars with a dreamy look in his eyes. "We humans rely on pokégirls too much. If we're gonna move forward we gotta learn to stand on our own two feet.
"On top of all of that, I got me a dream, you see." And as he spoke then, there was a fierce determination about the professor. "I wanna go into outer space someday, but I wanna get there on my own. The League's gonna pick up the tab if I can prove the technology, that's why I need to prove the merits of the Sub-Ether Energy Drive."
"It does have its virtues," Keisuke complimented the middle-aged researcher. "For one, I can see it easily being mass-produced, unlike space-faring pokégirls."
"Yup!" Cid agreed. "Not to mention that if it works on Earth I should be able to adapt it for space travel easily, unlike Washu's Mana-Drive.
"Besides all that there was one other thing…" Cid continued, though not being prompted. He paused then, resting his chin in his hand, a musing look on his face. "It was all kindda strange to me. See, the next day after Washu proposed the race she all of a sudden wanted to make a side bet with me. She said that if she wins she gets my Cabbit, Dita, but if I win she'll send that Daku feller to apprentice with me. Strange, isn't it?"
Keisuke, Leon and Angle all looked at each other, nodded quietly, and turned back to Cid. "Not really," was all Keisuke said, both boys and Angel deciding independently to leave it at that.
At long last Dita the Cabbit arrived with their tray of drinks. She was about as tall as Leon, with a medium-light figure and fairly chesty. She was covered entirely with cream-colored fur save for her lovely face, which featured a pair of bright blue eyes. Long, reddish-brown hair capped her head, coming down almost to her knees with short bangs falling over her forehead. She had long floppies rabbit ears falling to about shoulder-length, and she wore a black tube-top with a long-sleeved, large cuffed vest and a matching skirt.
Dita passed out the drinks and then bowed to the professor, clutching the tray close to her chest. "Sorry it took me so long to get the drinks out here, Professor. But I had to—"
"Ah, don't worry about it, Dita," said Cid, dismissingly. "Just try not to let it happen again."
"Yes sir!" the Cabbit bowed again.
"Say Dita," Leon began, unable to help but ask: "What do you think of Daku?"
"Daku? You mean, 'Mister Alien'?" she asked with an almost childlike air. "Well, he's nice, I guess. He always complements me whenever he sees me, and being an alien he seems really cool and interesting."
"I bet he is," Angel mused simply, resting her chin over her folded hands. "And if I were a bettin' 'gurrl, I'd wager dat da lad finds ye juust as interesting."
While Dita blushed brightly and turned away, Cid raised an eyebrow to the assembled party, curiosity clearly piqued. "What're you all talkin' 'bout?"
Angel and the Strifes looked at each other again. "Should we tell him?" asked Leon.
"I see no harm in it," Keisuke replied, turning back to Cid. "Professor, Washu told us that her assistant, Daku, is in love with your Cabbit."
Dita's face turned an even deeper red then, while Cid guffawed loudly. "Ha! That explains a lot! And all this time I thought him hittin' on her was just his usual lechery! And Washu, that clever ol' witch! She set it up so that win or lose her little alien friend would wind-up close to the woman of his dreams!" Cid laughed again. "Hell, I might as well help! After all, who am I to stand in the way of 'true love'?"
Dita blinked at her master, a mystified expression on her features. "What're you saying, Professor?"
"I'm saying that come the end of this race, I won't be y'er master anymore," Cid stated quite matter-of-fact. "Win or lose, I'm givin' you to that Daku feller!"
Dita's eyes grew wide in childlike wonder, and she held the drink tray even tighter against her chest as her mouth gaped grinningly. "Really, Professor?" she said expectantly, eyes sparkling. "Really," Cid acknowledged briefly before turning to the Strifes. "Daku's a pretty lucky guy. Dita just Thresheld about a month ago and she hasn't triggered yet, which means alien-boy's gonna be the first one ta get ta tame 'er!" Cid paused then, mulling over something. "Say! Being an alien an' all, I hope he's got the right equipment for the job!" he laughed while Dita turned another shade of bright red. Leon, Pyre, Lilith, Keisuke and Angel, on the other hand, just stared at him blankly, the joke obviously not amusing them.
"One more thing," the professor added. "I'll have to ask Washu about this, but I was thinkin' that when this race is done that you fellers could take Daku and Dita wit' ya's. I think it would do them both some good to get out there and see the world."
"Hey, we'd be glad to take 'em with us!" Leon spoke up first.
"Provided that is what they want," Keisuke added sensibly.
Dita straightened, staring at Keisuke with puppy-dog eyes. "I'll go wherever Mister Alien wants to go," she stated excitedly. "Oh, PLEASE may we come with you?"
Even Keisuke's usual aloof manner melted in the face of the redheaded Cabbit's pleading eyes. He sighed. "Very well."
"Then it's settled!" Cid declared, slamming his mug on the table for dramatic effect. "Tomorrow I'll talk to Washu—I'm sure she'll say yes—and after the race Dita and Daku leave with you fellers!"
Thus the big day arrived, and a massive crowd gathered for the event. Amidst the hustle and bustle of the final preparations, Washu delivered a last minute talk to her team.
"Okay, people! I'd like you all to meet your chief engineer!" she said to the assorted group of Daku, San and San's harem, directing their attention to the pokégirl who stood beside her. "This is Lucy. She's a Moon Bunny, and it'll be her job to channel mana energy into the engines to power them."
"I look forward to serving with you," said Lucy the Moon Bunny, bowing respectfully to them all.
Daku smiled slyly at the Moon Bunny, but then shifted his gaze to the professor, an expression of displeasure on his face. Washu caught his gaze and smiled back at him. "Trust me Daku, Lucy is here of her own volition," she assured him. "Magic-types—even Bunnies like her—rarely stay anywhere they don't wanna be!" the petite woman laughed. The explanation seemed to satisfy him, and he said nothing more.
Just then, Professor Cid came jaunting up to them, his brow furrowed in a smug expression. "Hey Washu, you loony shrimp," he called by way of greeting, bending over so as to be at face level with the diminutive scientist. "I just thought I'd swing by and give you the chance to forfeit before me an' my Highwind embarrass you."
"Fat chance, you old coot!" Washu shot back, grinning very wide at her rival. "I and my Souja will be crossing that finish line while you and your rinky-dink little airship are still trying get off the ground!"
"Is that a fact?" said Cid, smiling superiorly at her. "Well then, lets light this candle and see who'll be eatin' whose dust!"
San tried in a vain to hold in her giggles, as she could tell quite plainly that there was absolutely no malice in Cid's and Washu's trash talk. "You two should get a room, already!" she blurted out, gasping and covering her mouth with shock at what she had said.
Both researcher went red in the face and turned away from each other, Washu kicking at some pebbles while Cid rubbed the back of his head and stared blankly at the clouds.
"Well, anyways," Cid spoke up again. "I had something else ta say, but I think I'll save it for after the race. Let's just say I got a surprise for your alien friend."
Daku watched puzzled as the inventor/pilot walked away then, and it was clear that he was curious as to what Cid had meant.
Well, once that was all said and done, it was time for the race to start. As the Thrill City appointed announcer juiced up the crowd, the two teams took their positions within the airships. Both Cid and Washu would be acting as pilot for their respective teams, with Dita the Cabbit acting as Cid's copilot since most of his other pokégirls would be staying behind in Thrill. Lucy was, as stated, chief engineer for team Washu, and those two mysterious engineers from before were manning the engine room for team Cid. That left Keisuke, Leon, San and their pokégirls to fill in any odd roles that were left for their respective teams.
The gathered crowd howled with excitement as both airships' engines roared to life. The Highwind and the Souja slowly hovered into the air as the throng of spectators looked on in awe. Then the announcer signaled the start of the race, and the mighty ships of the sky streaked off into the horizon.
As the two impressive vessels raced across the heavens, they jockeyed for position fiercely. Both pilots pushed their machines for all they were worth, and the engines roared like ferocious beasts as they were pushed to their limits. Before long, however, it was clear that Washu was taking the lead.
In the Highwind's cockpit, Cid groaned with frustration. "Shit! I figured that little missy's rickety piece o' flying scrap wouldda fallen apart by now! Instead she's pullin' ahead of us!"
"The race isn't over yet, Professor," his Cabbit copilot pointed out determinedly. "Besides, we still have your 'Ace in the Hole'."
"You hush up about that, Dita! We don't know who might be listening," Cid chided. "I wouldn't put it past that pink-haired sneak to have bugged the ship somehow."
Dita sighed exasperatedly. "Yes, Professor."
Admittedly, her mind wasn't really on her work. She was too busy thinking about Mister Alien. Cid had promised to give her to him regardless of the race's outcome, and she was wondering what kind of master he would be. He seemed very nice to every woman he met, be they human or pokégirl, and she knew that he detested the worldview of the pokégirls' social standing. She herself hadn't given much thought to it all, though she did care about Cid, as he had been the closest thing she had had to a father since she had Thresheld. She would miss him when she left with Mister Alien, but she was excited nonetheless.
Suddenly, an explosion rocked the entire ship, and both Cid and Dita braced themselves against their control panels as the tremors shook the craft. Then the ship began to spiral uncontrollably, and Cid fought with the controls to stabilize it.
"What the @#$% is going on 'ere!" exclaimed the professor; Dita immediately checked her displays to answer him.
"There was some kind of an explosion in the engine room," she informed him, the excitable Cabbit futilely trying to remain calm. "We've lost attitude control as well as one of the port engines."
"Shit!" Cid exclaimed, pressing down a button on his control panel. "Engine room! The hell is goin' on down there? Are you all right?"
Dita checked another display and gasped. "Professor! The intercom is out, too!"
"Shit!" Cid cursed yet again. "What the hell is going on here??"
"I don't know," Dita responded. "But according to this readout the intercom's been disabled since before we took off!"
"What the @#$%!!" Cid sprang to his feet and raced for the door. "I'm going to check on the engine room. You keep this bird in the air as best ya' can, 'cause if we die I'm gonna kill you!"
"Yes sir!" Dita replied, though even as she spoke she looked out past the windshield and watched the Souja fly by. "Also, sir, Washu's team has just pulled way-way ahead of us."
"SHIT!!" Cid swore one final time as he left.
Leon, Keisuke and their pokégirls braced themselves against the walls of their crew quarters, straining to remain standing. As another wake rippled through the ship Leon, Pyre and Lilith fell into an unceremonious pile, while the more agile Keisuke remained standing and even caught Angel as she fell and wrapped her in his strong arms.
"Man! I wish I could be suave like that!" said Leon, enviously. He looked down and found himself on top of Lilith and Pyre, and then shrugged. "Of course, this is nice, too."
Just then Cid burst in the door, looking wild and keyed up. "Hop to it, folks! There's trouble in the engine room and we's got to find out what!" That said he ran from the room, headed to the aforementioned destination. Leon and Keisuke took one look at each other and nodded simply. The older brother helped the boy and his pokégirls to their feet and all together they ran after the professor.
They raced through the ship and before long made it to the engine room. Finding the door locked for some reason, Cid kicked it in and the lot of them spilled into the room to find the place a mess and those two engineers being the saboteurs. The masculine looking one was smashing at control panels and electrical wires with a large axe while the feminine looking one was charging up balls of flames in her hands before firing them, blasting apart various pieces of machinery.
"What the hell are you doin'!" Cid shouted indignantly. His sudden outcry caught the attention of both saboteurs. Bad for the pilot/inventor, as the female one was just about to fire another volley when she turned to the professor and accidentally blasted her attack at him.
"Angel! Dark Shield!" Keisuke ordered, and without missing a beat the Umbrea threw up her hands and generated a kinetic shield of darkness in front of Cid, blocking the projectile fireball just in time.
"Damn! We've been found out!" shouted the male saboteur.
"Well, it's kindda hard ta miss ya' when your bringing the ship down around our ears!" Leon shouted conceitedly.
"Hmph! And of all the people it had to be that lousy twerp again!" the female saboteur huffed. "Well, at least we can ditch these stupid disguises."
That said they both ripped off their blue jumpsuits in one motion, revealing that they were none other than the steely-eyed silver-haired Jonah and the blonde-haired one-eyed Hexx!
"Prepare for trouble!" Jonah shouted fiercely.
"And make it double!" Hexx added, just as intensely.
"To relieve the world of virtuous fools!"
"To bring all peoples under our rule!"
"To denounce the evils of Truth and Love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"JONAH!!"
"HEXX!!"
The villainous pair then stood back to back, showing their profiles to the assembled group. Hexx crossed her arms over her chest while Jonah rested his axe on his shoulder while flicking at his long hair with his free hand. As one, they finished:
"Team Rocket! Of Kindness and Mercy we are bereft! Oppose us, and you shall meet your death!"
*POP**SHOOM* "Loca! That's right!" declared the Trixie, striking a pose.
"Team Rocket! I shouldda known it was you!" Leon cursed.
Jonah chortled at the boy. "Whatever, twerp." He drew out pokéball and summoned his Minotaura. "Misato! Crush them!"
"You too, Midnight!" called Hexx as she chucked out one of her own pokéballs.
Before the female Rocket materialized a Mistoffeles, known as the Conjuring Cat pokégirls. Midnight the Mistoffeles had a feline muzzle, large yellow eyes, and—like most of her breed—all black fur. She wore a white, one-piece leather cocktail dress with matching fishnet stockings.
"Looks like they want a rematch!" said Leon, the excitement of battle welling up within him as both he and Keisuke drew their swords. "Lilith! Pyre! Let's rock 'n roll!"
"That's your catch phrase?" said Keisuke, raising an eyebrow and smirking at his brother. "Let me show you how it's done. Angel! Walk all over them!"
Leon blanched. "(Damn! Oniichan DOES have a better catch phrase)!" he thought. He was quickly brought out of his dreaming, however, when a Mana Bolt flew past his head, courtesy of Midnight the Mistoffeles.
"Stay focused, kid!" Cid yelled, running past them all and toward the machinery. "Keep them Rockets off my back while I try to restore power to the critical systems!"
"Done!" Keisuke nodded as he and Angel turned toward their foes.
First on the chopping block was Misato, the Minotaura stampeding right at them. Keisuke passed his sword off to his left hand while he and Angel charged the cow-pokégirl. With lightning speed and devastating force both he and Angel slammed their fists into Misato's stomach. The cow-'girl gave a strangled groan and then slumped over, Keisuke and Angel side stepping her lightly as she crashed to the floor, unconscious.
"Well, dat was easy." Angel smiled brightly, only to have her jovial mood broken as Loca slammed into her with her Quick Attack. Infuriated, Angel wasted no time in grabbing the Rocket Trixie and pummeling her senseless.
Keisuke would've chuckle at this, but at the moment he was in the middle of a fight with the axe wielding Jonah. The two tamers exchanged blows, each blocking the others blade with their own before returning the attack. For the moment the two seemed evenly matched, so Jonah began tapping into his Blood Gift: Super Strength. With a mighty blow he that Keisuke was only barely able to block the Rocket knocked the bespectacled tamer back a few feet. Though only barely able to keep his footing Keisuke nonetheless shook off the blow and charged Jonah, this time making sure to dodge the Rocket's counter attacks rather than simply blocking them.
Meanwhile, Leon, Lilith and Pyre were having problems of their own, thanks to Hexx and her Mistoffeles, Midnight. Both Rocket and pokégirl fired magic energy bolts at the boy and his harem as they ducked and dodged the attacks as best they could.
"Lilith!" Leon shouted while ducking a Mana Bolt. "Leap!"
Lilith pounced onto the female Rocket, knocking her to the ground; the Eva's new skirt rippling as she hissed angrily at her foe. Down but not out, Hexx charged up another magic attack while at the same time Midnight powered another Mana Bolt. Lilith saw this all coming, however, and dodged agilely over the Mistoffeles's head, thus pokégirl and Rocket wound-up blasting each other. Hexx must have been better versed in the magical arts than her pokégirl, for while hurt she was still better off than Midnight, who soon after having a fireball explode in her face collapsed backward to the floor, out cold.
Back to the older Strife boy, who ducked and evaded every swing of Jonah's axe. Despite his strength, the Rocket just couldn't swing his weapon fast enough to connect with the nimble Keisuke. Jonah breathed hard, the effort of swinging his axe wearing down his endurance little by little.
Suddenly all parties were thrown off their feet toward the back of the room by an abrupt burst of forward thrust. All except Cid, who clung to the control panel he had been working on.
"I'm not sure what you did, Professor, but it worked!" came Dita's voice over the intercom. "All systems back online, and incase ya couldn't tell, I've flipped on the Hyper Drive. Well catch up to Washu for sure, now!"
"Good 'girl, Dita!" Cid applauded.
"Yes. If only that were all we had to worry about," said Keisuke dryly, picking himself up off the floor.
Jonah did the same, shaking his head clear as he stood. "This is getting us nowhere! Hexx! Break out the extra pokéballs!"
Leon and Hexx had landed next to each other, and when they heard Jonah shout they both spied the Rocket girl's pack just a few feet away. They got up simultaneously and both raced for the pack, neither one wanting to let the other get to it first. In chorus they both dove for the bag, sliding across the floor as they reached out as far as they could to grab it…
But Loca got to it first.
"I got it, Master!" she cheered, apparently having shaken off the vicious beating she got from Angel. She turned the bag upside down and dumped out six pokéballs, all of which burst open upon hitting the floor.
Thusly the engine room was then filled with six feral-born and hungry looking Lamias. Leon looked up at one staring him right in the face, and he swallowed hard.
"Boss!" shouted Pyre as she leapt on the snake-'girl, wrestling with her while her tamer bid a hasty retreat.
Across the room, Keisuke and Angel stood back to back as they fought off advancing Lamias seemingly from all sides. The dark haired tamer swung mightily at them with his sword, drawing blood as the snake-pokégirls would move in to attack, and Angel would keep the rest at bay with a few well-placed dark energy bolts.
"Shit!" Meanwhile, Cid just narrowly dodged as another Lamia dove at him and slammed into the control panel he had been standing before. "Looks like we could use a snake-wrangler 'round here!"
The professor drew a pokéball off his belt, the last one he had, and pitched it out. As Leon watched he gaped in awe as a most peculiar pokégirl emerged from the middle-aged researcher's 'ball.
She was about as tall as he, and very much animalistic in her cat-like features. She was covered in white fur with a slight muzzle to her face and long pointy cat-like ears. Her body was humanoid and a little pudgy around the midsection, though still quite shapely all around. Sharp, claw-like nails capped her human-like hands and paw-like feet, and a big bushy tail wagged lazily behind her. Most distinguishing about her, however, were the red patches of fur on her chest and the left side of her face, the chest fur shaped like an 'M' and the facial fur making a checkmark shape over her eye.
Remarkably, the instant she appeared all the Lamias in the room immediately recoiled in fear of her! Curious, Leon immediately whipped out his pokédex and scanned her.
**PING** MUFFGOOSE (not to be confused with MONGOOSED), the Snake-Eater Pokégirl, AKA the Hard Rocker Pokégirl
Muffgoose is a musically inclined pokégirl who has a bitter hatred of any and all snake-pokégirls. Snake-pokégirls are known to instinctively withdraw in fear upon seeing one, a good idea seeing as how Muffgooses, like their cousin the Mongoosed, are predatory of snakes. Muffgooses are also known for carrying electric guitars, which they can not only play very well but also tend to use as weapons.
Leon pocketed his pokédex and looked back at the Muffgoose, and upon closer inspection he found that she indeed was carrying a guitar. The pokégirl held the instrument as though it were a sword. The boy grinned. This cool pokégirl already had the Lamias on the run, and he was quite interested in seeing what she could do.
"Gabby!" Cid called to his Muffgoose. "Use 'Call Me Queen'!"
Without a word 'Gabby' took up her guitar as though to play it, and strummed out a screeching note. As the note reverberated off the metallic walls and filled the room, and Leon gawked in awe as the Muffgoose began to glow with a white aura. Suddenly, her aura ballooned up until it filled the entire room, and the already frightened Lamias screamed in terror, hugging each other tightly as they feared for their very lives.
Gabby drew up close to them and they retreated into the farthest corner of the engine room. She kept advancing on them and now they had nowhere to go. All the while Gabby wore a sinister smile, and at long last she spoke, telling the Lamias and their Rocket masters in no uncertain terms to, "Get these MOTHER FUCKIN' SNAKES off my MOTHER FUCKIN' AIRSHIP!!!"
Well, that was it for the Lamias, and while resisting the urge to simply faint they all bolted for their pokéballs and retreated into them, the 'balls actually shaking along with the pokégirls inside.
With all their pokégirls defeated, the pair of Rockets looked upon their foes and swallowed hard. Conversely, Cid, the Strife boys and their respective pokégirls glared at the Rockets with huge malevolent grins.
"Beaten again, and there's nowhere for you to run to, this time," Keisuke observed, cracking his knuckles noisily.
"We're boned…!" Hexx stated as she looked upon the mob ready to pounce on her and her cohort.
"We ain't licked yet!" Jonah shouted defiantly. "Loca! Get your lazy ass over here and DO SOMETHING!!"
Loca the Trixie jumped in front of her master. As the Rockets recalled the rest of their harems, Loca raised her hands up beside her face, her fingers stretched out wide. Suddenly a bright light shot out from the short pokégirl, blinding all save her fellow Rockets. It was almost a minute before the light faded and their vision returned, and when it had Team Rocket were nowhere to be found.
"Damn!" Leon cursed. "They got away again!"
"Quite," his brother agreed. "By now they've probably grabbed some parachutes and bailed out."
"Well, at least they left us their Lamias," said Cid as he waltz over and picked up one of the discarded pokéballs. "Either o' you want one?"
Both Leon and Keisuke shook their heads quickly, knowing full well that ex-Rocket Lamias would be nothing but trouble.
"Well, then, I guess they go ta me!" the professor declared. "Maybe I can find a tamer who'll take 'em. If nothing else, they'll make a nice snack for Gabby!"
The aforementioned Muffgoose bounded up to her master, throwing an arm around him affectionately while smiling widely. At the same time, Leon and Keisuke looked at each other with raised, nervous eyebrows, both hoping the middle-aged pokégirl researcher was kidding about feeding the Lamias to Gabby. Sure, the snake-'girls were unpleasant, but that didn't mean they deserved to become someone's dinner.
Then the buzz of static feedback brought their attentions to the intercom. "Professor! We're coming up on the finish line!" Dita exclaimed excitedly.
"Shoot, we'd best mosey on back up to the cockpit," said Cid simply. No one objected.
Hovering in a hot air balloon over the forest just outside of Fitness Town was Todd the pokégirl watcher. Todd's balloon marked the finish line for Washu and Cid's airship race, and even now Todd was watching through his binoculars as Washu's ship, the Souja, came up fast on his position. Cid's Highwind, on the other hand, was nowhere in sight.
"(Whoops! Spoke too soon)," thought Todd as he spotted the Highwind off in the distance, coming up fast on the Souja. In his head Todd calculated the distances and relative speeds of the two craft, and estimated that this would likely be a photo finish. As such, he readied his camera, placing it on its tripod and setting the shutter to automatic so that it would instantly snap a picture of the first ship to break the infrared beam it emitted.
That done, Todd braced himself, as these two massive vessels were likely to create huge wakes as they zoomed by, and Todd didn't want to take the chance of falling.
And indeed they did rock his little balloon basket hard as they zipped by almost simultaneously, and amidst the roar of the airship engines Todd could just scarcely hear the click of his camera's shutters.
Crackling static made Todd aware that his superiors were trying to contact him. "Todd, this is ground base. Both the Highwind and the Souja have crossed the finish line. Did you see which one got there first?"
"Hold on. I'm checking right now," Todd replied into his radio as he unscrewed his digital camera from its stand and checked the LCD display. He gaped at what he saw, and quickly took up his radio again declaring: "The Souja wins by a nose! Repeat! The Souja wins by a nose!"
Down below on the ground, Todd could clearly hear the gathered crowd give an uproarious cheer.
When all was said and done, all parties involved, human and pokégirl alike, stood by the mighty airships and watched as Washu laughed triumphantly at her defeated rival. Poor Cid slouched and stared at the ground, looking quite miserable.
"Oh, c'mon! That shouldn't even count!" he objected pleadingly. "Friggin' Team Rocket sabotaged me! I demand a rematch!"
"Now-now, Cid, let's not be a sore loser," Washu chided arrogantly. "After all, there's no shame in losing to the best!"
Suddenly a pair of puppets that bore some vague resemblance to Washu herself appeared over each of her shoulders.
"Washu is the greatest!" said the left one.
"Washu is the smartest pokégirl researcher in the universe!" said the right one.
"What the hell are those things??" Leon inquired as the puppets disappeared behind the diminutive scientist again. No one seemed to have answer for him.
Cid shook off his depression and looked at Daku. "Well, alien-boy, a deals a deal," he said, and the rabbit-eared boy looked quizzically at him.
"What're you talking about?" the alien asked.
"I bet Cid for ownership of Dita, to give to you!" Washu answered for him.
"You what??" Daku shouted more than asked, sounding irate. "Washu! You know how I feel about pokégirls being treated as property!"
"If he's pissed about that then nobody better tell him that Washu offered him to Cid if she lost," Leon whispered to San, who nodded with acknowledgement.
Daku continued to argue with Washu, and would've gone on even longer if Dita hadn't stepped between the two of them and put a halt to it.
"Mister Alien, this is what I want," she told him sincerely, her ever-present childlike enthusiasm stronger than ever. "I want to go with you!" And she threw her arms around him then, drawing him into a tight and warm embrace.
Daku was at a loss for words, taken aback by the Cabbit's sudden display of affection. Unsure of what to do, he wrapped his arms around her back and hugged her in kind. "If that's what you really want, then I have no objections."
Then Professor Cid grabbed his rival by the arm to get her attention. "There's something I'd like to talk to you about in private. It's about Dita and Daku," he said as he led her away from the group.
As the pokégirl researchers talked privately, Leon regaled San and her pokégirls with the tale of the Team Rocket attack on the Highwind. Keisuke, Angel, Gabby the Muffgoose (who was holding all the Lamia's pokéballs) and his own pokégirls listened and filled in any blanks in the boy's memory, as well as correcting any exaggerations he made.
"Ah man! I missed all the fun again!" San said, pouting.
"All for the best, I think," said Bright, sensibly. "After all, I wouldn't want you getting mixed up with those Rocket types."
"I'd have pulverized those Rockets if they'd have even looked at San the wrong way!" said Aiko, all bravado. "Moof!"
"Sure you would, 'girl. Sure you would." Violet laughed, wrapping an arm around the Kitsune's shoulder.
"Anyway," Leon went on, finishing up the story. "Then Gabby picked up all their pokéballs while we crossed the finish line and yadda, yadda, yadda, you know the rest."
"So what're you gonna do with all those Lamias the Rockets left behind?" San inquired.
"Well, Professor Cid wants to at least try to find a good home for them, as hard as that's gonna be," Gabby explained before dawning a bright grin. "He might've been joking, but he said if he couldn't find a place for them that I could eat all five of them!"
"Five?" Keisuke spoke up suddenly. "I'm pretty sure I counted six of them back in the engine room."
Gabby held up the pokéballs cradled in her arms. "Nope! Five, see?" and indeed she held only five pokéballs.
"Are you sure?" the bespectacled tamer countered.
"Oniichan, they were everywhere!" Leon responded. "Writhing all over the place like they were, how could you keep track of them? You probably just miscounted."
Unfortunately, Keisuke had not miscounted, and Daku and Dita, who stood closest to the Highwind, were about to find this out the hard way. Just inside the airship's loading doors the final Lamia hissed wickedly, watching them all with malevolent intent. At long last she sprang from the airship, intent on sinking her fangs into the unlucky Cabbit whose back was to the snake, oblivious to the danger a mere split second from striking her down. Daku, on the other hand, stood face to face with Dita and thus saw the Lamia coming, and quickly the horned-alien shoved the Cabbit out of the way and threw up his arms, catching the Lamia by her powerful jaws. The flabbergasted snake looked on, helplessly flailing her arms in a futile effort to break the furry-boy's grip, a notable glimmer of fear in her eyes as she saw the alien sneer at her.
"Sorry, lady, but there's no way I'm lettin' you hurt my Dita!" he declared as with amazing strength he spun around and hurled the snake by her jaw clear across the grassy field/impromptu landing strip. Lamia landed on the grass with a thud and lay there, stone cold unconscious.
Cid and Washu both came running when they heard all the commotion, but by the time they arrived the danger had passed. They asked what had happened, and the Strifes were more than happy to fill them in.
"Shoot, kid, seems like you can take care o' y'er self right fine!" Cid praised.
Washu took a hold of Daku's hand and placed a Dyno-cap in it. "This is from me. It's a hover-bike!" she said with a wink. "You'll need it to help you get around."
Noting the alien's questioning stare she added: "Me and Cid got to talking, and we decided that it would be best for both you and Dita to go along with Kei the Blade and his family. Ya' know, really get out there and see the world!" She patted him on the shoulder, smiling widely at him. "She'll need the experience if she's ever gonna evolve into a StarlightXpress, and I think you could use the experience too. Who knows, you might just discover that we terrans aren't so bad after all!"
Daku looked down at the petite scientist—his only real friend in all the time he had been stranded here—with a mix of joy and sorrow plastered across his features. "Washu… I don't know what to say…"
"You could say 'thanks,'" she said solemnly, though never losing her smile. "And 'goodbye'…"
Washu pulled a small box out of her pocket and placed it in the horned-boy's free hand, adding: "You'll need this, too. It's a box of evolution stones, specifically an Angel Stone, Psi Crystal, and Mana Crystal. You'll need them to help Dita evolve."
Keisuke blanched when he heard the names of the stones and gave a grave look to Lilith. The Eva looked back at him quizzically, then smiled. He shook off his trepidation and sighed, residing himself to the duty of ensuring that Lilith didn't get anywhere near that Angel Stone, as he was the only one among the Strifes who knew about Evangelion, and it was probably best that it stayed that way.
Washu and Daku finished their tender moment, and the professor turned away from her companion, and anyone who was watching her carefully would swear to have seen a tiny glimmer in her eye as though from light reflecting off a tear.
Dita walked in front of her new tamer and smiled brightly at him. "I promise to work hard to evolve for you, Mister Alien!" she said excitedly.
Daku put his hands on her shoulders, gazing into her reddish-violet eyes while beaming affectionately at her. "Don't worry about it. Just being with you makes being stuck here all worth while."
"Alls well that ends well," Keisuke observed, turning toward Cid. "And what about you?"
"Me?" the professor asked. "Well, losing the race means I lost the chance for League sponsorship, but that doesn't mean I'm givin' up." He placed his hands behind his head and looked up and the azure sky. "I'm gonna keep chasin' my dream of goni' into space until I get there, and nothin's gonna stand in my way!" "Well said, ya' old coot!" Washu laughed while slapping her rival hard on the back. Apparently the diminutive mad genius had regained her earlier cheery nature. "And ya' know what? I'm gonna help ya'!"
"Oh, please!" Cid scoffed. "I need help from a puny, pink-haired quack like you like I need a hole in the head!"
"Oh yeah, ya' old fart!" Washu shot back huffily. "I bet I can make it into space before you do!"
"There's no mana in space, you twit!" Cid fired back. "I'll be on Pluto while you're still trying to figure out how to leave the atmosphere!"
Thusly the two professors fell into another argument, and the only response Team Strife had for that was to role their eyes with annoyance at the two childish researchers.
Later, at an undisclosed location somewhere in Fitness Town, Jonah and Hexx prepared to contact their boss via videophone.
"Status report?" Giovanni said simply as soon as his image appeared.
"Mission accomplished. Cid lost the race just as you ordered," Jonah replied while saluting. Hexx's pose mirrored that of her partner's.
"Excellent," the Rocket boss complimented. "Now all that's left is for you to return the Lamias I loaned you."
Both Rockets went stark white when they heard this order, and they looked at each other, blinking blankly. They turned back to their boss's image slowly with expressions reminiscent of a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
"Uh… boss?" Hexx began hesitantly, Jonah completely lacking the courage to say what needed to be said. "We uh, kindda… lost the Lamias…"
"You WHAT??" Giovanni bellowed. "You IDIOTS!! Do you have any idea how much those pokégirls cost?"
Simultaneously the two Rockets recoiled in fear of their employer, throwing their hands in front of themselves in defense. "But we did like you asked!" Jonah pleaded. "We made sure Cid lost the race, so the money we raked in from the betting pools should more than cover the losses!"
"Yes, and that's the only reason why I'm not going to have your heads over this debacle!" the Rocket boss hissed, fury burning in his eyes. "But the next time I give you two a mission you'd better not screw it up!"
"Yes sir!" both Rockets cried at once, saluting their boss as the videophone went dead.
Hexx sighed. "I'm getting too old for this shit."
Jonah nodded.
Daku carried his new Cabbit into their private room at the Fitness pokécenter like a groom would carry his blushing bride. As they approached the bed Dita threw her arms around his neck and pulled him into a loving kiss, which proved to be a little awkward as his horn got in the way somewhat. Anyway, their lips parted and each one slid their tongue into the eager mouth of their lover. Daku slid his muscle over her pallet and felt her in turn tapping the top of each of his teeth with her own.
Finally, Daku broke the kiss and laid Dita gently on the bed. He then leaned over her, kissing her tenderly while sliding his hands up under her shirt. He cupped her large and firm breasts and squeezed them lightly, delighting in the feeling of the soft flesh in his palms.
Dita cooed with happiness as she felt his hands on her bosoms, and was sadden when he finally removed them. However that sorrow soon gave way to excitement as he sat her up, sliding her vest down her arms and removing it. Then he grabbed a hold of the hem of her tube-top and began to draw it up. Eagerly she lifted her arms to assist him, and soon the garment was removed and cast aside.
They returned to making out while Daku pulled her skirt down her legs and Dita fumbled with the zipper on his flight suit. While he moved on to removing her pink panties she pushed his hands to his sides so as better to pull the off the upper part of his flight suit, leaving it to dangle about his waist as he returned his hands to her hips and eagerly relieved her of her undergarments. She returned the favor by beginning to remove his undershirt, and he lifted his arms to facilitate her.
Daku straitened and drew down his flight suit, hoping up on one foot as he pulled it off the opposite leg, then switched, tossing the one piece suit aside once off. Now he wore nothing but his plain white boxers and his flamboyant light blue scarf, both of which were quickly removed revealing his black furred body completely to his new pokégirl, as well as his already erect penis. Eight inches in length it was, bright red and looking as though it would be slimy to the touch, emerging from something along the lines of a sheath or fur and skin at the base where the phallus met his crotch.
Quickly he joined her on the bed, spreading her legs and diving his head in between them. He sucked lightly at her pleasurable nub while running a finger over her slit, and she cooed and quivered with every motion of furless his hand and suckle of his mouth. Then he began to run his tongue over her clitoris softly while sinking a single finger into her womanhood. He worked her little honey pot like someone who had done this before, and perhaps he had. Washu was quite fond of him after all, and perhaps there was more to that than just innocent affection.
Daku could tell her climax was drawing near, and he halted his oral assault on her loins. Before she could protest he rose to his knees and, her legs still spread wide, positioned his manhood at her entrance. Dita briefly gaped in awe at the appendage poised to penetrate her before returning to his face, finding there in look of pleading She nodded her readiness to proceed, and with permission granted by his lovely, he entered her.
He got about halfway in when he hit an obstruction, and realized that it was her hymen. He looked into her eyes and briefly the two nodded at each other. Then Daku pushed in forcefully and felt her cherry burst, and she yipped painfully, closing her eyes as a single tear slid down her face. Daku brushed it away tenderly, leaning in and kissing her lips softly.
He stood up again, and gently placed his hands around Dita's taught waist. Using it as leverage he began to thrust into her, taking slow, powerful pumps. Dita gasped with his every pump, her breath coming in shallow ragged pants. Daku's strained breathing mirrored her own as he increased his tempo and force with each thrust. Tension mounting, both knew that they hadn't long before their climaxes hit.
Then the Cabbit wrapped her legs around her lover and squeezed him in tightly against her entrance, and the sudden action sent them both over the edge of a surging orgasm. The horned-boy gave a strangled cry as he convulsed over his love, and his seed shot into her, 'bonding them' as the terrans called it. The Cabbit below him howled with joy and excitement as the electric tendrils of her orgasm tickled her very being and sent shockwaves of pleasure throughout her entire body.
Even his alien endurance couldn't handle this much pleasure, and Daku collapsed on top of Dita, drawing his arms around her for an embrace. The Cabbit returned his affection, wrapping him in a hug filled with all her love.
"I'll say this much…" Daku whispered into his pokégirl's ear. "Gettin' you to evolve is gonna be a hell of a lotta fun…"
In the afterglow of her orgasm, the Cabbit had hardly heard him. However, she could tell from the sound of his voice that he was happy, and that made her happy as well. "Dita happy…" she stated simply, stroking his long, straight, furred ears with her hand.
Daku yawned, resting his head along side hers. "Yes… Daku happy, too…"
To be continued…
**PARDON THE PARODY**
**POKÉGIRL MADLIBS**
Ash Sexum whipped out his big ________ and stuck it right up his Peekabu's ________, and she cooed with blissful ________. Then Ash began to ________ into her with all his ________, and Peekabu ________ back at him just as ________. Little by little he increased his ________, and Peekabu ________ his ________ with all her ________. At long last, Ash ________ deep inside her, and she ________ all over his ________, ________ loudly as their ________ filled her ________.
Then Gary Stroke walked in on them both. Enraged at being interrupted, Ash viciously ________ him to death.
The end…
I'm not even gonna bother telling you what kind of words to fill in, since you're all just going to put 'penis' in every single black anyway!
Leon: (Reading the Madlib) How do you viciously 'penis' someone to death?
Daku: (Sighs) Fine! I'll show you one more time! (Unzips his fly).
San: (Blows kiss and waves to the reader) G'night, everybody!
THE END…
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I do not own, nor do I claim to own, Pokémon, Pokégirls, Tenchi Muyo, Vandread, or any related properties there of. 'Cid Inventis' is the rightful property of A-kun.
This fic was originally completed on 10/5/06 at 4:44 PM, then edited on 11/16/06 at 9:48 PM.
[Authors Notes: Surprise, surprise! I managed to slip a Snakes on a Plane parody in there! Whaddaya folks think o' Daku? Hope ya' like him, 'cause he's gonna be stickin' around for a while, BELIEVE IT!
On another note, some of you may be questioning the logic of creating the Muffgoose pokégirl species when we already had the Mongoosed species. Well honestly I didn't know about the Mongoosed when I invented the Muffgoose, and also I created the Muffgoose to be the pokégirl equivalent of one of my favorite pokémon, Zangoose, whereas the Mongoosed is more like a pokégirl version of Furrent or Linoone. You can also rest assured that Muffgooses will play a big part in the story to come.
On yet another note is Cid Inventis. Like it said in the disclaimer, he belongs to A-kun, and he was obviously inspired by one of the many Final Fantasy Cids, though I don't know which one A-kun intended him to be like, so I winged it and wrote him like FF7's Cid Highwind (my personal fav', BELIEVE IT!).
That said, please R/R, and Thankies!]
Official Pokédex Entries
CABBIT, the Friendly Pokégirl
Type: Animorph
Element: Normal
Frequency: most places Very Rare. Around the Shrine Gym Common.
Diet: carrots, and nothing else
Role: being cheery, dancing to cheer people up
Libido: High
Strong Vs: Ghost
Weak Vs: Fighting
Attacks: Phase, Dance, Aura of Cute, Double Team, Cheer, Bite, Scratch
Evolves: StarlightXpress (Angel Stone, Psi Crystal, Mana Crystal, Delta Bond with Tamer, be of high level, orgasm)
Evolves From: Catgirl(orgasm), or Bunnygirl (Cat E-Medal)
Cabbits are the most friendly type of Pokégirl alive. They don't like violence and aren't that good in a fight, but make excellent pets, and are usually used as domestics, or healers/cheerleaders in Tamer harems. They are very loyal, and very good with kids, Tame Cabbits frequently seen working in nurseries, alongside Pokégirls like NurseJoys and Neko Cennecos. Cabbits are a very unusual breed, a mix of rabbit and cat in appearance. They usually have dusty, dark brown fur, catlike faces and rabbitlike feet and ears. They also have a small, glowing red gemstone in their foreheads.
Mostly, Feral Cabbits are found in great numbers around the Shrine Gym in the Edo League, with some Very Rarely being found elsewhere around the world. No one knows why they congregate around this Gym, Researchers are still confused on the matter, and the owners of the Shrine Gym aren't talking. Most Cabbits around the world head back to this Gym when they are ready to give birth. They have a great weakness for carrots, loving both eating them by the dozen and using them like dildos in taming. Tamers who want to catch a Feralborn Cabbit usually use a carrot as bait. Cabbits LOVE carrots, and will do almost anything for them, making taming a Cabbit quite easy.
Cabbits are a very popular breed amongst pet lovers. Threshold cases are rare, but not unheard of. Girls that do become Cabbits usually don't mind it all that much, as they gain a very cute appearance and demeanor that's very friendly.
It's unknown whether or not a Cabbit can evolve. Some Tamers have claimed to have evolved their Cabbits, but when asked into what, they quickly changed the subject. It's only recently that the evolution of a Cabbit was discovered...
MOON BUNNY, the Star Gazing Bunnygirl
Type: Near Human
Element: Magic
Frequency: Rare
Diet: Human Diet, though perfers vegis and sweets
Role: Caretaker, Writer, Other(Varies with affinity)
Libido: High (Peaks at Full Moon)
Strong Vs: Ghost, Demonic pokégirls
Weak Vs: Dog pokégirls, Bird Pokégirls
Attacks: Smile, Reflect, Phoenix Down, Cry
Enhancements: Increased Intelligence, Affinity(Varies), Knowledge of Stars and planets, Enhanced Hearing, Aura Of Grace(Is there such an enhancement?)
Evolves: None
Evolves From: Bunnygirl (Moon Stone)
Without a doubt, the Moon Bunny is the smartest of all the Bunnygirl evolutions, though it's still considered slow and dimwitted when compaired to other smart pokégirls such as Supe-Bra Genius and Alaka-wham. Though none of her fighting skills improve with her evolution, the Moon Bunny can now actualy focus to where she can be taught some complex moves. A few unusual aspects about the Moon Bunny is that after evovling, a Moon Bunny will become as proficiant as she can in a subject of her choosing. This can be anywhere from fighting to sexual pleasure to accounting! They also have a rather lengthy knowledge of the night sky.
The most dramatic aspect would have to be their Aura of Grace. While a Moon Bunny is less clumsy then her cusions, she will still trip over her feet now and again. But when she doesn't, Her Arua of Grace gives her ladylike poise and a beauty that even a Psidyke could see.
MISTOFFELES, the Conjuring Cat Pokégirl
Type: Near or Very Near Human
Element: Magic
Frequency: Rare
Diet: human style foods, particularly milk and fish products (fish paste being their favorite)
Role: anywhere entertainment is involved
Libido: Average
Strong Vs: Fighting, Ground, Psychic
Weak Vs: Poison, Dark, Ghost
Attacks: Scratch, Bite, Slap, Hypnotize, Illusion, Smile, Reflect, Mana Bolt, Mystic Bolt, Power Bolt, Teleport, Mirror Enhancements: Enhanced speed and agility, High hand-eye coordination, Night vision, Enhanced senses (x3), Magical knowledge Evolves: None
Evolves From: Catgirl (Mana Crystal)
A Mistoffeles is a Catgirl that is exposed to a Mana Crystal. The one difference from her pre-evolved form, besides her new aptitude with magical forces, is that her fur becomes completely black; as one Tamer described, ?from her ears to the tip of her tail?. Another note is that unlike some cat pokégirls, a Mistoffeles prefers to wear clothing, usually either a tuxedo vest or jacket and white dress shirt with bow-tie, or she'll wear a Bunnygirl outfit. It is said that Mistoffeles were originally to be used in the War in the same positions that Cheshires and Shadowcats held, however, unlike these two other cat pokégirls a Mistoffeles was too helpful, too 'nice'. They could never bring themselves to kill people when necessary, and so Sukebe used them as couriers instead of having them do the dirty work he then gave to the Cheshires. A Mistoffeles' strength lies in her magical ability to use illusions and attack spells. A Mistoffeles will usually use her illusion will offset her opponent, giving her the time to perform a more powerful magical attack.
It should be noted that in a Harem, a Mistoffeles will tend to be helpful to other cat pokégirls, doing what she can to make her feline Harem-sisters more comfortable. It is also thought by some that the Mistoffeles have a connection to the Legendary Chaos Kitty Macavity, yet it is still unknown what connection the Mistoffeles have to her, or even if that rumor has any validity to it at all.
LAMIA, the Vipergirl
Type: Animorph, humanoid
Element: Poison/Ghost
Frequency: Rare
Diet: carnivore
Role: Most often wild, few are ever domesticated
Libido: Very Low
Strong Vs: Fire, Fighting, Psychic
Weak Vs: Ice, Dragon
Attacks: Poison Sting, Bite, Wrap, Tail Slap, Glare
Enhancements: Serpentine form, poison sacs, increased flexibility, soft bones.
Evolves: None
Evolves From: Naga (Venom Stone)
The flip from Naga. Where a Naga looks *mostly* human, the Lamia has the lower body of a serpent, armored scales, and a noseless snakelike muzzle. Lamia are cold-blooded, and are carnivores that are not too picky about where their meal comes from. They have been known to swallow whole mouse pokégirls and bird pokégirls, and then crawl off to digest them at their leisure.
EVANGELION, the Neo-Legendary Endtimes Pokégirl
Type: Very Near Human Metamorph
Element: Celestial (No other classification seems valid, not even Magic)
Frequency: Unique (Thank God!)
Diet: Unknown
Role: Destruction, possibly the end of the world
Libido: Unknown
Strong Vs: Unknown
Weak Vs: Unknown
Attacks: Telekinesis, Mass Teleport, Grow, Wingover, Gust, Tornado, Gravity, Manifest Weapon: Lance of Longinus, Manifest Avatar: Monster Angel, AT Barrier - Ultimate Shield, Omnious Blast
Enhancements: Size-change, wings for flight, teleportation, numerous mystical powers
Evolves: None (We hope)
Evolves From: Eva (Angel Stone)
NOTE: ALL INFORMATION BELOW IS TO BE CLASSFIED TOP-SECRET. NO ONE IS TO READ THIS FILE WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORIZATION.
The following information comes to us from survivors of the Evangelion Advent, known to the public simply as the Orange Islands Incident.
The Advent of the Evangelion came about purely by chance.
A young, naive, pure-bred girl by the name of Lilith Roxette was attempting to evolve her Eva, a Threshold girl that was a schoolmate, into a more powerful form, but didn't want one of the already known forms. She acquired several evolution stones, including an Angel Stone, and went about to her favorite place, a park in the dead center of the Orange Continent. She first tested the Angel Stone, and what resulted was catastrophic.
The elemental stone vanished, as they are wont to do when used to evolve a Pokégirl. But after it did, a massive column of light erupted from the Eva's body, growing in intensity until it started to shatter the bedrock of the continent. A massive explosion occured, vaporizing Lilith and the majority of Tamers and Pokégirls in the park. The continent cracked apart, seperating into a massive array of islands, many at the center of the former continent dying instantly. The few lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on your view) to survive witnessed the Evangelion's physical form.
Reports vary greatly, but the general consensus is that the Evangelion is a gigantic woman, over thirty-meters in height and fully human in appearance, save for her four eyes and the twelve immense, blade-like wings of light emerging from her back. Her breasts are smallish, and her eyes are black in the sclera and iris, while being red in the pupil. Her hair is long and flowing, glowing a bright copper color. She opened her eyes once, and it is said that when she witnessed the destruction she had caused, she wept, curling her wings in on herself and sinking into the ocean. It's said that she remains in stasis-like sleep, and will not appear again until the end of the world.
Since that day, Evas have been forbidden in the newly-named Orange Islands, although due to the necessity of covering up what happened, no one today really knows why this is, save for the rumors that 'Evas are bad luck.'
The Evangelion, thankfully, seems to be a one-time occurance. A failed experiment, spied upon by League agents, by a group called Team Batallion, to produce another Evangelion was attempted, but the Eva (which was rescued and gratefully placed with a more loving Tamer), did not evolve. All the Team Batallion members there were arrested and convicted. Attempts to find the current Evangelion have either met with failure or disaster, some expeditions not returning alive. Our best guess is that Evangelion will remain in her forced slumber until something awakens her.
There is evidence, however, that this may not be so. Rumors and sightings, quickly quashed and publicly dismissed as heresay, have arisen about Evangelion. It is said that she reappeared at a normal human height of six feet seven inches tall, and was seen clad in some sort of glowing white armor, doing battle with several different Legendaries, including Sexmet, Macavity, Hild, Zapdass, Whore-Oh, Lugiass, Moan, Moantwo, and a Twau. An astronomer early on even reported that Evangelion had appeared on the moon, alongside a very confused and enraged Typhonna, and that the two did battle, fighting to a draw before vanishing again. We do not know if these claims are true, but we are still looking into them.
PEEKABU, the Electric-Mouse Pokégirl
Type: Animorphic - Mouse
Element: Electric
Frequency: Uncommon (Indigo & Crimson League)
Diet: fruits, nuts, pokéchow
Role: storm troopers (literally)
Libido: Average to High
Strong Vs: Electric, Flying, Steel, Water
Weak Vs: Dragon, Ground, Plant, Rock
Attacks: Thunder Shock, Thunder Wave, Thunder Bolt, Agility
Enhancements: Speed
Evolves: Ria (Thunder Stone)
Evolves From: Pia (normal)
Peekabu are similar to Titmice in many regards. They are good foragers, have sensitive ears and tails and are rarely over four to five feet tall. However, Peekabus have a higher pleasure threshold and DO make fair combatants.
A Peekabu CAN be a good starting pokégirl, provided the trainer take certain precautions, such as rubber suits, rubber gloves, grounding lines, etc. or simply gaining the Peekabu's trust. Once trust is gained, the rubber materials are only required if the Peekabu loses _complete_ control during orgasm.
The role of the Peekabu in Sukebe's army was part of a Storm Generation force. Any army that could resist his other pokégirls would have a hard time stopping a force of nature that was generated by this task force. Magic, psychic or water pokégirls would create a cloud cover while flying pokégirls, carrying Peekabus and Joltinas, would create gale-like winds as the electric pokégirls rained lightning down on the enemy forces, who would refrain from retaliating, believing the storm to be natural. Indeed, the Storm Generation force hadn't lost a single member, even up to the point where they were eventually dissolved.
Unofficial (Author Created) Pokédex Entry (BELIEVE IT!)
MUFFGOOSE, the Snake-Eater Pokégirl, AKA the Hard-Rocker Pokégirl
Type: Anthropomorph (cat/mongoose cross)
Element: Normal
Frequency: Rare
Diet: Carnivorous. Mostly human-style food supplemented with the occasional snake-type pokégirl
Role: Snake predator and guitarist
Libido: High to Very High (Extreme is her tamer can sing very well)
Strong Vs: Ghost, Snake-type pokégirls
Weak Vs: Fighting
Attacks: Scratch, Slash, Cut, Fury Swipes, Slice n' Dice, Leap, Take Down, Double Edge, Glare, Yell, Screech, Call me Queen, Agility
Enhancements: All stats x2. Giving them a guitar or 'string-blade' can enhance most of their attacks as well as teach them new ones like Sword Dance, Parry, Hammer, Power/Armor/Special/Metal Break, Battle Song, Last Dance with Mary Jane, I'm Doing the Best I Ever Did, and Guitar Heroine (the last one only leaned from the rare 'Gibson Double-Neck Cherry Special' string-blade). Some string-blades can also grant projectile/elemental attacks.
Evolves: None
Evolves From: None
The Muffgoose species is a rising star in the pokégirl world. She stands about 5'3", with a humanoid body, a fine 'not too skinny' figure, and (on average) a C-cup bust. She's mostly covered in white fur with a mix of cat and mongoose-like features, such as medium long pointy ears, large eyes, a slight muzzle, a black nose, sharp, claw-like nails on her fingers and toes, and a large, bushy tail that is about half as long as she is tall. Her most distinguishing feature is a patch of red fur that usually starts with the entire left ear then crawls down her face ending in a 'check mark' shape across her left eye. There's a similar red zigzag mark on her torso, starting at her right hip and moving into an 'M' across her chest, and her forearms and shins are also covered in red fur, usually up to the elbows and knees, respectively. Muffgooses also like to decorate themselves with colorful barrettes, hairclips and pet collars in addition to dressing flamboyantly (if they wear clothes at all).
Most Muffgooses have an affinity for rock 'n roll, especially the ancient works of one David Bowie. While it isn't entirely clear why, some speculate that this is due to the red marks on their faces giving them a resemblance to the character 'Ziggy Stardust'.
Because of their love of rock, most Muffgooses take up and become quite proficient with the electric guitar, and many learn to use it as a weapon in battle! Mostly like a club or a sword, going (as one tamer put it) "El Ka-Bong" on their opponents. When armed with a guitar of any type it is possible for them to learn a number of song techniques as well as other physical attacks.
Another quirk of this species is their utter disdain of any and all snake-pokégirls, most of who will run in terror from them, as a Muffgoose will never hesitate to make one into a meal.
There is a famous story of a reputed Team Rocket boss who, when faced with possible indictment, flooded an airship with Lamias in an attempt to assassinate the prosecution's star witness in transit. The man was saved by the pilot's pet Muffgoose, the pokégirl declaring: "Get these MOTHER FUCKIN' SNAKES off my MOTHER FUCKIN' AIRSHIP!!!!" before single handedly fending off the Lamias and saving all onboard. As this story circulated Muffgooses began to enjoy some popularity among airship pilots.
Muffgooses enjoy having music played during taming. They also greatly enjoy performing fellatio on their tamers, or as they call it 'Swallowing the Snake.' Depending on how loose their snatch is and/or how large their guitar is, they may also enjoy being masturbated with it. If it can't fit inside them they're quite happy to just have the head rubbed against their vulvas.
Muffgooses will usually get along well with Divas and other musically inclined pokégirls. However, if you have any snake-pokégirls you might want to rotate your active harem so that your Snake and Muffgoose aren't in it at the same time, if not trade/release one of them. They CAN be thought to get along, but it is a difficult and ill-advised prospect.
Domestic Muffgooses who desire a tamer will often seek one who can sing or otherwise has some kind of musical ability. A few have talked their tamers into starting bands, which have enjoyed some minor success, though the Muffgooses say they won't stop until they're bigger than Mineko and the Pussycats!
Tamers should be wary that tamed feral Muffgooses (and some domestics) can be prone to excesses in food, sex, alcohol and narcotics. In the case of sex, this is not always with their tamer or harem-sisters, which has led to many a fight. "Rockin' out is hard work," said one tamer of his experience with a Muffgoose, many of whom seem to live by the Credo: 'Live fast, die young, and leave a big fat corpse!'
Special Notes: There is a guitar-smith, a strange woman by the name of Haruko Haru-haru, who has taken to designing and building weapon guitars for Muffgooses. Called 'string-blades,' they are usually noted as guitars with bladed edges, literal 'axes' if you will. They can also have a variety of special features, ranging from everything between built-in shotguns, to taser, to flamethrowers (granting the Normal-Type Muffgoose elemental attacks!) and the like.
Haruko's greatest creation, however, is the Gibson Double-Neck Cherry Special. This rare double-neck string-blade has an automatic shotgun built into one neck (no 'cocking' necessary) and a grenade launcher built into the other neck capable of firing a multitude of specialized grenades (explosive, incendiary, flash, freeze-bombs... whatever floats your boat!). Also, the whole thing can disassemble into two separate units for easy dual wielding. Optional 'homing-bracers' worn on both the pokégirl's wrists will allow her to throw the weapon and have it return like a boomerang.
The Gibson Double-Neck Cherry Special can also teach a Muffgoose her greatest song-related technique, 'Guitar Heroine.' This support action causes the pokégirl to glow with a rainbow colored aura, and during which all her stats double! She can also use her 'backlash techniques' (attacks like Takedown) without sustaining damage! The drawbacks are that she cannot use any other song/dance/aura related techniques while Guitar Heroine is in effect, the effect is canceled if for any reason she let's go of her guitar(s) and when the effect runs its course (or is canceled) it leaves her exhausted and vulnerable. Plus she cannot use the ability again for at least an hour.
Haruko doesn't have a shop, per sé. She wanders the countryside usually hanging out near concerts or other musical events, so look for her there is you'd like to buy one of her custom guitars. And bring a big wallet, because these babies don't come cheep! Also note that most leagues forbid the use of string-blades except as melee weapons, so no blasting away with your shotguns or flamethrowers in official gym battles (the homing-bracers are still cool, though). And whichever type of string-blade you choose, they all play really well.
~Kid Loose Productions~
