WebNovels

Chapter 9 - Pick Your Poison

(Authors POV, Hosu City, 20 minutes later)

"Get down!" A police officer said as he and a few others ducked underneath a large stream of fire that melted though the cars they were using as shields like they were butter.

"Mortar....." A large Magmortar said as it gave a sound that seemed like a low chortle before reeling back and planting one of its cannon-like arms into the ground.

"Mag!" It yelled as the asphalt started to melt and an Eruption attack gushed out of the road spraying hot drops of magma everywhere.

"Damn it!" The cop cursed as he put his arms to protect himself, only for nothing to happen while a nearby fire hydrant exploded and the water underneath formed into a shield in front of him that blocked the fire.

"Mor?" The Magmortar said as the cop looked up to see the Normal Hero, Manual standing in front of him and looking down at the Fire-Type Pokémon.

"M-Manual!"

"Is there anyone hurt?"

"No, but there's at least five more Pokémon attacking the city elsewhere." The cop explained right as the Magmortar launched another stream of water that Manual countered with the water wall being formed into a lime and hitting it right in the chest making it groan in pain before he turned back.

"You and the rest of your officers go and keep the crowd under control and away from danger, I'll keep his focus off of you." Manual said as the cop nodded and ran off with the others.

"I will admit, this is the first time I've fought any Pokémon, let alone one that looks as strong as you."

"But even so, you're still putting innocent people in danger, so human or not..." He said before two large columns of water bursted out of the ground and formed beside him.

"It's the job of me, and my fellow Heroes to protect them from you!"

"Magmortar!" The Pokémon yelled before it started to charge at him.

(...)

"Scizor!" A slightly manic looking Scizor cried as its pincers glowed and it sliced through a chunk of a building with Metal Claw, large blocks of rubble falling fast right on top of a few civilians who were running away.

"Luna Ring!" A voice cried before Mirko jumped up and did a midair cartwheel wheel, breaking all of the rubble pieces into dust as she skidded back down onto the ground in front of the Scizor.

"Heh, you know when I heard the words "Pokémon attacking" I thought that was just someone being dramatic, but guess how surprised I am to see you!"

"You ready to put those big old claws of yours to work?" She said with a grin as the Scizor held its pincers up to its head, the fake yellow eyes on the sides glowing brightly as they snapped at her.

"I'll take that as a yes!"

(...)

"Lacquered Chain Prison!" One the newer Heroes, Kamui Woods shouted as his arm grew and several large wooden tendrils shot out and wrapped around an Eelektross that was suckling away on a large transmission tower beforehand.

"Lektross...." It growled at its meal being interrupted before its body began to spark and it started spraying electricity everywhere.

"That won't work fiend, wood is a natural insulator against electricity!"

The Eelektross gave a frustrated grumble before it breathed it and shot a Flamethrower out of its mouth, burning away its bindings and making Kamui Woods jump to avoid having the rest of his arm burned away as well.

"Hmm, I see, I guess I'll have to bind your mouth up next!" He said as the Elefish slithered away and he chased after it.

(...)

'This doesn't make any sense...' Ryukyu thought as flew across the city

'Wild Pokémon sneaking into places they don't belong for food or shelter is one thing, but just attacking for no reason....'

'There must be some outside...some...outside...' Her mind started to grow hazy when an almost sickeningly sweet smell filled the air and she fell out of the sky.

"Shit!" She cursed and she forced her body to float upwards slightly so she wouldn't crash face-first into the roof of a nearby building.

"Why...why is my body so...dizzy?"

"Hehehehe, look who felt right at my feet." A smooth voice almost oozing with sadistic intent said as two feet in heels stepped in front of Ryukyu.

"What the hell?"

Now standing over the Dragon Hero was Salazzle, or rather a tall human woman with the same features of one, including the pink and purple markings all over her body, the long pink streaks in her head, the slitted purple eyes, and the lizard tail poking out of her waist.

"Well hello there, Ryukyu." The Salazzle woman said as a large cloud of hot pink mist seeped off of her skin.

"Don't bother trying to stand, I may not be able to control humans with my pheromones, but I can make things a little foggy."

"Y-you..."

"Oh my, where are my manners, my name is Rarity." She said with a bow, though the look in her eyes was anything but respectful at the moment.

"I see you and your comrades have met my boys, yes?"

"As you can guess, I'm very proud of them, to think they could actually challenge real Pro Heros, I feel like a proud mother!"

"And you, ohohoho, you're the icing on the cake!" Rarity said with a giddy smile, her sharp teeth on full display as Ryukyu struggled to keep her arms up.

"I just wanted to cause a little chaos out of boredom, but the thought of adding to my harem never crossed my mind somehow!"

"Imagine, the Dragon Hero Ryukyu, my most loyal and strongest slave, ohhh the things I could do with you!"

"So you're...the one...forcing them...to attack?" Ryukyu growled before the Salazzle woman started laughing.

"Hahaha, oh darling, I'm not forcing them to do anything, they're doing this simply because they truly do want to please me." She said, ignoring the surprised look in the Hero's eyes as she looked down at the Pokémon.

"Because I'm the one who saved them all."

"The Magmortar, Meltdown, was held hostage by the group of Villains with water Quirks when he was just a Magby and tortured almost daily before I helped him evolve and burn them all to ash."

"The Scizor, Striker, was taken from his forest by a group of poachers and sold off from person to person for his near-indestructible exoskeleton before I came and rescued him.

"The Eelektross, Jules, had trouble controlling his strength when he first evolved and harmed his former owner by accident, so in return, her parents sold him off and he was used as a living generator until I found and taught him how to fight back."

"And...well, the last one with me isn't too important at the moment." Rarity said with a distant look in her eyes before she turned back to Ryukyu.

"Every one of these Pokémon were going through hell before I came along, I don't need to control or threaten them, I simply need to ask, and they will give."

"If I'm hungry, then they'll bring me food until I'm satisfied, if I'm in danger, they'll lay down their lives to protect me, and if I want them to destroy this city, then they'll even fight you so-called "Heroes" for me as well!"

"And to be honest, I don't think I could really control them if I tried the traditional way, I care about them far too much for it to work." She declared as she looked her in the eye before licking her lips lightly.

"And I guess that brings us back to you Ryukyu, maybe I should play with you right here on this roof?"

"Or maybe, you'd like your first job for your Mistress to be causing a bit of havoc along with my other pets as well?" She said with purr before moving her hand to Ryukyu's face, only a large scale scale to shoot up and grip her wrist hard, damn-near snapping it in half as the blonde glared up at her.

"I see, so you're nothing more than an enabler taking advantage of their pain, these Pokémon may have been treated terribly, but that's still no excuse for this!"

"Wh-what, but you, my pheromo-aack!" Rarity struggled before Ryukyu's other claw went to neck as she started flying upwards, her wings blowing away the cloud of pheromones while her eyes burned into the Salazzle woman's own.

"You think some reptile whore could make a Dragon into her pet, you insult me." Ryukyu said as she turned into her full-dragon form and pressed her enlarged claws down on Rarity's chest.

"Now call them off."

"You...you bitch!" She said before purple flames filled her mouth and she shot a Flame Burst that hit her directly in the head, only for the embers to bounce off her scales harmlessly.

"Now!"

"Arceus damn it, Overlord!" Rarity yelled before the building they were standing on began to shake and Ryukyu quickly flew up into the sky as it fell apart, the Salazzle still gripped securely in her claws as she started laughing.

"Ryukyu, I'd like for you to meet the favorite of all my pets."

"Overlord." She said as Ryukyu watched a gigantic Tyrantrum crawl out of the hole where the building was and roar loudly."

"I saved him from the Pokémon Research Lab right here in Japan when he was just a cute little Tyrunt, the poor thing was injected with growth hormones that forced it to evolve prematurely."

"But, I still made him useful of course." Rarity said before she whistled and the Despot Pokémon's eyes locked onto Ryukyu and he started chasing after her, barreling through any buildings in his way.

"If I can make a suggestion, I'd let me out of these brutish claws of yours, otherwise he may go on a little temper-tantrum."

"There's no way I'm letting you go, and are you willing to just kill yourself like that?"

"I've healed from far worse, and there's no way you can fight him with me in your arms!" Rarity said before she laughed again.

"What to do Hero?!"

"...do you think I'm stupid?" Ryukyu asked, making her pause.

"What?"

"I may be a Dragon, but I'm still nothing close to arrogant."

"I would never come into a fight alone."

(...)

The giant Tyrantrum continued to chase after his captured Mistress until someone else flying right up to him caught his eye.

"Full charge, output level 30!"

"Gring Wave" A young girl's voice shouted before a large surge of spiral shaped energy waves appeared and hit Overlord head-on, the massive dinosaur being forced back until he gave in and fell down to the ground unconscious.

"...wh-wha...." Rarity said in shock before she looked down and saw the young girl who knocked her most prized servant in one shot now floating above him up in the air.

The girl looked to be in her mid-to-late teens with fair skin, wide royal blue and white eyes that seemed to sparkle, and long, thick, periwinkle colored hair that went all the way down to the back of her knees, twisting around itself at her waist and curving inwards around her legs, she also had a rather full yet somewhat cute figure with supple DD, maybe even E-cup breasts, wide but also slender hips, and nice healthy looking thighs as well.

"Hey hey, I've never seen a Tyrantrum up close before, are they usually as big as you are, if so then that's amazing, and is it true that you're actually a fossil brought back to life, cause that's even cooler, oh and...!" She said as she started listing off questions to the defeated Pokemon while Ryukyu felt Rarity go limp in her hold.

"Now then, are you ready to behave?"

(...)

'All civilians are clear, I can finally go on the offensive!' Manual thought as the water that he'd been using as a shield started to spin.

"Magmortar?" Meltdown said as he prepared to attack again before he saw Ryukyu land in front of him with Rarity held tight in her grip.

"Meltdown, stop." The Salazzle said, her voice barely above a whisper.

"M-Magmortar!"

"This was a mistake, we can't win this, just...do whatever they say." Rarity said, making the Magmortar tense up until he finally put his arms down.

"Mort..."

(...)

"Let's do this again." Kamui Woods said once he finally caught up with Jules.

"Preemptive Binding: Lacquered Chain Prison!"

This time, almost twice as many tendrils shot out of the young Heros arm and towards the Eelektross, two of them catching his arms, two more around his waist, and one around his face right above his jaw, pinning it down in the ground and away from the wood."

"Lektross, lektross, lektross!" Jules said as he flailed around frantically before he felt the wood sink him deeper into the ground.

"Jules, that's enough!"

"Eel?" He blinked before he saw Rarity and Ryukyu flying above him.

"L-lektross?"

"No, it's not because you're too weak, I'm fact I'm impressed that you did so well, so quit you're squirming before you embarrass yourself."

"...tross." Jules said as he gave in and Kamui Woods tendrils let go of him before he sat back up with a slump.

"Eelektross..."

(...)

"Sci...zor....Scizor..." Striker breathed in and out heavily, exhausted as he held his claws up to block a kick from Mirko.

As much as it had been a complete bane on him, he was still very grateful that his shell was strong enough to block out most of the damage from the Hero's hits.

However, the little bits of damage that hit through was quickly starting to stack up, and it didn't help that Mirko definitely had him beat when it came to sheer speed at the very least.

"Come on bug, where's all that fight from a few moments ago?!" She said as he continued to block before she jumped and gripped his neck with her legs before flipping him over into the ground, a small crater forming underneath him while large cracks started to appear on his body.

"S-Scizor!" Striker growled as he forced himself back up.

"Heh heh, I'll give you this much, you Steel-Types really can soak up hits huh." Mirko chuckled, smiling when she saw the Scizor get into a fighting stance once again.

"Fine then, if you want to test that fancy shell of yours, then let's-" She said before freezing in place, her eyes growing wide as the sudden excitement just vanished.

"I....I....oh no....not now."

"Scizor?" Striker asked as he tried to step forwards, only to immediately fall back down, his small adrenaline rush coming down fast.

"Striker!"

"Hey!" Ryukyu yelled as Rarity jumped out of her grip and landed before running past Mirko and over to the Scizor.

"What have you done to him?!" She snapped at her while Striker struggled to move his head to meet hers.

"Scizor..."

"No no no, you were amazing, Striker, you lasted longer than Overlord, I'm so proud."

"Now, let's get you fixed up, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, that's what I taught you, right?" Rarity said as she held his head to her chest and Striker gave a small sound of agreement.

"Hmph, she's not a good person, not by a long shot but...." Ryukyu said as she landed next to Mirko.

"She really does care about them doesn't she?"

"In any case, we should make sure the police can hold them properly, are you coming Mirko?" She asked, receiving silence in return.

"Mirko?"

"...Rumi?" Ryuko said as she went to place a hand on the Rabbit woman's shoulder only for her to jump back, her face now slowly turning red.

"I...need to go." Was all she said before jumping away, leaving her alone with the two Pokémon as the police started to appear.

"That was...different..."

(...)

"My my, this is quite a change of pace, woof." Kenji Tsuragamae said to Ryukyu as Rarity and the other Pokémon were taken away.

"Thankfully no one was injured during the attacks, woof, and aside from a few busted buildings there wasn't too much property damage either, woof."

"So what is going to happen to them all?" Ryukyu asked, making him growl in thought.

"The Salazzle is far too intriguing to just ignore, woof, so she'll be taken in for questioning before being sent to a regular prison, we want to do the same for the others too but..."

"But the only one who can translate for them is far too dangerous to let near them."

"Well yes, woof, but she's not the only one who can translate for them...."

Ryukyu paused for a minute before realizing what the dog-headed police was suggesting and felt her instincts almost flare inside of her.

"No, no, never, I'm letting him anyway near that reptile!"

"If her pheromones were strong enough to work on me in the air, then God only knows what it would do to him!"

"Then we'll hold her in solitary confinement until he's out of range, woof, I assure you, they won't even know one another is there." Kenji said as he ignored the growing anger in Ryukyus eyes before the Dragon Hero took a few deep breaths and calmed herself down.

"....okay...okay...what you're saying...does make sense."

"I would usually never bring a civilian, but he is technically an adult, woof, as well as the only person we know who can talk to Pokémon, I don't it either Ryukyu, but we don't have any other options

"We need Zero, woof."

More Chapters