Author's Notes: Just a quick one-shot to get my typing fingers back into action to work on my other stories. This one was born of an idea my and soundwave0107 had while chatting about the gym leaders... I swear that Skyla has no care for health and safety.

And this was born from that idea... -.- I'm just going to let you read it before Skyla catches me.


The world had changed after Team Plasma had been ousted from Unova. Not because they moved on to another region, simply because Team Plasma was no more after N Harmonica had dissolved them, preferring to live in peace as a commoner.

No... The world faced a completely different threat in the form of a female gym leader. No-one expected her to have the plans she enacted, but she did, surprising all and worse, succeeding.

Now she rules the world. Any who openly defy her are blasted out of a cannon and straight into a wall of spikes; rumoured to be designed after the gym she used to have in Mistralton.

Even harder for some to grasp is that the ex-Nimbasa Gym Leader had joined her on the throne...

It was doubtful that anything could change for the worse given the world's current situation.


"Who dares interrupt my recreational time!" boomed through the massive hall.

"S-s-sorry to disturb you, Mistress Skyla. I bring the criminal you asked for." The young female at the open doors said, clearly scared.

A vicious smirk crossed the commanding woman's lips as she sneered, "Load him."

The tall criminal started screaming in protest, flailing his arms in a vain attempt to get free. The moment he was in the cannon, someone appeared from a different end of the hall, in her usual yellow garb.

"Elesa... Good timing my dear. Do you remember this fool?" Skyla asked a sly grin on her face.

"Unfortunately," Was the reply, "Never wanted to see his face again." As Elesa said this she'd walked over and wrapped an arm around Skyla, now wearing a matching grin, "Good riddance, eh?"

Skyla cackled and gestured for the cannon to be fired. After the resounding boom of it going off the criminal's screams could be heard as he flew at great speeds, then it was suddenly cut off, a screen on one of the walls flickering on to show a slow motion replay of the criminal's arrival at the spikes. Skyla was cackling in glee as the spikes went through the man's skull and organs in varying degrees of spraying blood and sheared off body parts.

Elesa had looked away however. Despite everything, she still didn't want to believe that her Skyla had become a complete tyrannical madwoman. But there were those who chalked it up to inevitable; after all, no other gym leader defied Health and Safety to have people launched out of cannons to reach her.

Still, the ex-Nimbasa gym leader didn't want to leave Skyla, not because doing so would get her launched out of a cannon, because she preferred life in Skyla's palace, with the exception of people being violently killed for speaking out against the fellow female.

"I wonder how many more idiots need to be given an appointment with the spikes before the resistance stops?" Skyla finally asked.

Elesa shrugged, "Don't know. Don't care. As long as you're happy, I'm happy." She smiled just before the two kissed.

Who'll end her reign? No-one knows, or hopes such anymore. The two who could are hiding in a forest alone.


A/N: Quite a twist, no? And before you ask, I'm never going to reveal who the two hiding in the forest are.

Anyway, I suggest you flee before that woman catches you...