Chapter 2 is one of those backstory deals I was talking about. Nothing lewd here, in fact this is a rather serious chapter, so if you are just here for that, keep moving on.

Guile the Scyther stood over the unmoving form of Xzanos the bisharp. It was the middle of the night, everybody else was asleep, but scyther was lost in thought. Xzanos was shiny, and that made him distinct. With the addition of the name, there was little doubt that the two had met long before, whether the bisharp still knew that or not. Guile was convinced that their re-meeting was a message from fate, but what exactly fate was telling him he couldn't decide. He sat down in a meditative stance as he looked back upon the road that led him here.

Guile was once a member of a clan of other scythers, led by one who had recently become a scizor. Ironically enough, his name was still guile. Though back then he was named such for his skills in deception, whereas Seth named him that as shorthand for Guillotine. They had an ongoing feud with a gang of pawniards led by a Bisharp couple, and the scizor's recently attained power had gone to his head. The prideful pokemon issued an open challenge to the bisharps, in spite of words of warning by most of the scyther clan. It wasn't how they operated; scythers were creatures of stealth and cunning, they lasted so long against their rivals by picking off anybody who strayed out of sight of their comrades. Nobody had any experience in fighting as a group of more than two or three, meanwhile militaristic group tactics was something of a specialty of the pawniards. Of course, nobody could defeat the scizor in a one on one fight, so his word was law and any who went against him were quickly and harshly shut down.

The day of the war came in the cold of winter; both sides arrived in a big forest clearing, decided upon beforehand by the scizor, which was probably the single thing he did since evolving that was relatively rational, as scyther's could hide in the treeline, becoming all but invincible. On the side of the pawniards stood tall two bisharp: Legiacrus, master tactician and immovable object; and the shiny Xzonas, leader of the gang and unstoppable force. Between them stood their banner-bearer, a shiny pawniard. According to the scyther's spying efforts, Xzonas picked out Legiacrus as a mate long ago, back when Xzonas was still the banner-bearer, and together they had a child that was shiny like the mother. The odd thing is that as much as the pawniard gang liked to boast about themselves, the kid was seldom mentioned. Judging by the way that it was quivering, the younger shiny bad enough at combat to be not worth mentioning even in spite of being shiny.

Taking advantage of this, the scizor started the battle off by bullet-punching their banner-bearer in the side of the head, knocking it out instantly. After that, it's hard to say exactly what happened as all hell broke loose. Two-thirds of the scythers' total forces lept out to fight head-on, the rest still hiding in the trees. The scizor didn't last long against the Bisharp pair, though, and before long it was obvious that the scythers were being decimated. Guile was smart enough to have stayed hidden for the most part, only dropping down from the canopy to kill off enemies that tried to escape.

Not even fifteen minutes later and the battle was over; Guile estimated that only about seven others from his clan were still alive, having fled while they could, while the pawniards still had at least a score plus the bisharp lovers. But Guile wasn't about to give up so quickly. He was filled with rage at seeing so many of his kin slaughtered, and so he stalked the enemy back to their home, staying hidden until far after they'd all gone to sleep, and then skulking through their camp.

It seemed the banner-bearer survived, though had been tossed into a pen, not that Guile had any interest in the child at the moment. No, he went straight to the large hut where the bisharp couple slept. A sharp, curved blade teased at the throat of Xzonas as Guile debated whether to kill her quickly and quietly or to play with her. For better or for worse, though, he didn't get a chance to decide, as Legiacrus caught him in the act, grabbing the scyther's throat with one hand and smashing him through the wall of the hut before slamming him onto the ground. The entire gang was alerted to the infiltrator and every single one of them got a turn beating on Guile, carefully making sure he survived the process.

He was tossed to the ground at the edge of the pawniard's encampment, "Go on then, run, like the coward you are", Legiacrus had told him, "Run, that we may hunt you down. Run, that your injuries end you before we do. Run, and show what friends you have left the consequences of fucking with us".

And he ran. For three days straight without stopping for food or water or rest, Guile ran. When he finally collapsed, he was found by Seth, who, not knowing anything about the scyther, nursed him back to full health. Seth was going to release him afterwards, but Guile wasn't about to leave the one who so selflessly gave him a second chance. Guile had effectively spent his life as a ruthless and immoral bandit, only to be defeated by teamwork, nearly killed by love, and brought back by the kindness of a stranger. He had decided he was going to turn his life around, starting by paying back his debt to Seth for saving his life by devoting his life to his trainer's wellbeing...

And it was going well for the scyther. With a trainer and other pokemon he could trust, he had a good life. And then a shiny bisharp showed up. It wasn't Xzonas, though. Xzonas was female while this one was a male. And something was wrong with him. Seth was battling another trainer when this bisharp jumps in out of nowhere, one-shots the enemy's pokemon, then dances around Seth until the other guy leaves. The bisharp never spoke a word, either, and when Yuna tried to read his mind, the entire thing was a jumbled mess, "Xzanos" being one of many things he spouted. The similarity between "Xzanos" and "Xzonas" can't be a coincidence, but was that actually his name? He never learned the name of the pawniard's old banner-bearer, it's possible he was named after his mother, or that he was misremembering his own mother's name. In either case, assuming that this really is the banner-bearer, what happened to him between then and now? There was a period of two years between the attempted assassination of Xzonas and the meeting of "Xzanos", that might be enough time to evolve, but did that scizor's single punch mess up his mind that badly? What happened to his gang? Did his parents disown him? Or maybe one day he just wandered off and never came back?

The rising of the sun brought Guile back to the present. Xzanos would be waking up soon, and by extension, so would everybody else. He looked over to the ones he called his teammates, all sleeping peacefully in a big pile. Once Xzanos pulled himself off the ground, Yuna would teleport away to pretend she doesn't need to be directly taking in Seth's scent to sleep, then Seth would count everybody to make sure nobody wandered off or got kidnapped, then Lassie would clean everybody up as Seth made breakfast, and then it'd be back on the road for most of the day until Xzanos eventually ran out of energy and camp would be set up, starting the cycle anew. In the meantime, Guile would meditate to restore as much energy as he could in lieu of a good night's sleep.

So there's that. I have a bit more for an expanded backstory for Xzanos, but I'm not sure I how present it. Here I have Guile having flashbacks of his past, but Xzanos doesn't have the mental capacity for flashbacks... well, the short version is: Xzanos was shitty fighter, he was given one last chance to prove himself, he got more head trauma, sending him to pyroland, he hugged his opponent to death, evolved from that, then randomly roamed around until he found Seth, sticking with him for pretty much no reason.