Serpent: Wait,you introduce them but not me? And I'm the main character!
StylishDescent: At least you have the honor of being the main protagonist of my first fic!
Serpent: *Rolls eyes* Fair enough...
StylishDescent: Now then... where was... ah yes! Introducing Riley by Twilightcrystalflame and Crimson by !
Riley: Hey there!
Crimson: *Waves hand*
StylishDescent: On to the fic! And by the way, I do not own Pokemon and OCs, Riley and Crimson. I do however own my OC Serpent!
Chapter 2: Birds of a feather
[Deadwatch HQ]
24/7/2015, 0716 hours
"Dammit all! The first New Descent hybrid has escaped! 3 years worth of research, all down the fucking drain!" General Randall ranted at the Big Three colonels (who are Herald, Jack and Cross). "If that's bad enough... we still do not know where the fuck is the test subject from Operation : Hellfire. Also that Serpent fucker triggered the release of many test subjects as he fucking escaped, of which one of the Horus' Wraths too managed to escape.
"Sir, permission to speak." Herald asked.
"Permission granted. What is it?" Randall grunted.
"One of our squads, Crusader 2-2, has located the Hellhound test subject."
"What are they waiting for?! Attack and subdue it with lethal force!"
"They are... just..."
"Just what?"
"Well..."
[In the middle of the forest where Serpent was last chapter]
Serpent's POV
Where the hell am I exactly? I mean there must be an end to this forest right? I have been walking for hours already and still no sign of any exit. Looking around, I realised one stupid thing, why the freaking hell have I not covered my tracks? It is already a miracle that I haven't been found then, they could not be far behind. Groaning, I looked around, hoping to find anything to quickly mask my foot prints without any luck.
"Boom!", an explosion could be heard along with screams of pain. My ears perked up at the sounds. As much as I do not want to be caught in the crossfire, I have to go and check it out. After all, I am not so ignorant and cruel unlike you know who. Running towards the source, I hear more screams, blood splattering and one person shouting out," Get us some fucking body armor! That Arceus-damned thing is ripping us to shreds!" Ripping them to shreds eh? That seems... useful. Wait, what am I thinking? Am I getting sadistic or bloodthirsty? Nevermind that. Better see what or who iskilling whoever.
Riley's POV
[10 minutes before current events]
"I am giving you one chance bitch, come with us quietly or we will have to drag you kickin' and sceamin'. And trust me, I don't want to see you cry your cute face out!" that's what I heard when I was cornered by these Deadwatch or whatever the hell they call themselves. "Idiots,"I muttered out, one thing I learnt the hard way, never ever underestimate your foes, regardless of , looks like I'll have to teach them that myself. I grinned as the lot of them backed off when I changed both my arms to claws. Let's see who's the one going to scream now.
[Now]
"Get us some fucking body armor!That Arceus-damned thing is ripping us to shreds!" My claws glistened with blood as I tore another one of these Deadwatch bastards into a pile of bloody limbs before firing another shadow ball at a group of them. All those "lucky" ones turned into a bloody explosion, the unlucky ones were left alive, screaming as their body parts will blown how many of them are there?! It's like almost endless waves of these ass-holes are firing at me, trigger-happy. Worse still, I am running out of steam and I am bleeding bad. "Alright, that's it! HQ, permission to call for a Neo-hunter package right now, we can't handle much more of its attacks!" The one soldier, I'll assume that that's the commanding officer, radioed to their HQ.
"Permission granted, hold off for another 2 mikes, dropping in a Neo-hunter to your coordinates!" A gruff voice replied. Well, that's just fan-fucking-tastic. Now one of these hybrid soldiers to deal with? Better think of a escap- wait who the hell is that?!
A person, covered in a green hoodie and pants, as well as a Servine's tail, ran towards us. Shit, if that's the Neo-hunter then..."Argggggghhhh!" A pained scream echoed in the air and everyone looked towards its source, the hoodie's owner grabbing one of the soldier's with his left hand before tendrils from his right burrowed into the soldier's flesh, with the soldier's scream already dying down."So... how do you like being trapped with a monster you fuck-faces!" the guy taunted the Deadwatch as he threw the body in his hand on the grass. What the fuck did that guy just do?! "Shit! That's Nature Serpent! Forget that bitch! Just go hot on this motherfucker now!" Every Deadwatch who had their guns trained on me, now firing every bullet left in their magazine at the new guy.I swear to Arceus himself that I am hallucinating, but that guy just took all the bullets, still standing with all those wounds in his body, before absorbing light to regenerate his injuries.
"Hey you, guy in the jacket, you okay?" The Servine hybrid asked as he shrugged off the pain, obviously refering to me. As much as I want to thank him for helping me out, the fact he mistook me for a guy angered me. I mean, do I really look like a guy?
"Yes but are you gender-blind? I am a girl!" I shouted at him. His eyes slightly widened before apologising and asking "My bad, can you move?" I nodded a reply and he told me to run as far as I can away from here. "Are you fucking insane? You'll die! I barely survived alone up to now! What makes you think that you can handle all of them yourself?!" "Heh, well then, you saw how I survived a torrent of bullets, do you believe that I'll fall so easily?" that said, he charged towards and fought the stunned Deadwatch troopers hand-to-hand. As much as I think that it is cowardly to run away now, he seemed to have a point. I ain't in tip-top condition and having me to run gives me enough time to recover from my injuries. I was about to turn and GTFO when a new voice came out.
"Well well well, what do we have here?"
Serpent's POV
"Ah come on now," a new Deadwatch soldier taunted,"I'm not gonna hurt you... much." He laughed pyschotically as he finished his sentence. This one has a weird uniform, and considering they have already have weird designs, this one certainly is something else. He wears a combat armor similar to the other soldiers with two simple differences, his arms were uncovered and had a insignia of two high-tech looking swords on a dark red emblem. For what happened next, was obviously something that no normal human being should be able to do. What was it? Let's just say, I am "lucky" to be able to find out now. Leaves materialised from around him before sending towards me as a off guard, I was swept off my feet, landing on my back, bleeding slightly. Hissing at the pain, I got up and kicked the bastard in the chest with a dropkick, using my speed to increase the force via momenteum. The Deadwatch soldier was just sent a few feet back before regaining footing. "What the? Why can't you die like the rest?"
"That's because he's a Neo-hunter class supersoldier." A feminine voice replied. Turning my head, I saw the recovered, but still slightly bleeding hybrid girl."Those are tough bastards, can survive most wounds fatal to humans, like how you did have moves ranging from long-range to close combat. This one for example has the move Leaf Storm. The best way to take them out is by using your moves against them." I looked at her, with a WTF-is-a-move look.
As expected she facepalmed and asked,"You are a hybrid and you don't even fucking know a move... you really just a newbie at all this, right?
"Well then, no time like the present to try and figure out?" I turned around to face the Neo-hunter. The girl told me that she'll take care of the small fry considering that she still is not at her best shape to kill the Neo-hunter. Not giving him time to react, I let out a series of punches and kicks to the supersoldier. The soldier managed to block some hits but since he could not react fast enough, took most of them to either body or head. Guess even supersoldiers have their weaknesses. Roaring in anger, he sent another barrage of leaves to my face, only this time I evaded by jumping pass him and kicked him in the face just as he turned towards me. The supersoldier fell on his back and I went ahead to bio-leech him. To my surprise, my bio-leech only absorbed a small bit of his biomass before involuntarily retracting to my body.I staggered backwards as pressure seeming to build up in my hands. Instinctively, I thrusted both arms out and fired a barrage of leaves from my hands, similar to the Neo-hunter's, to said guy just as he struggled to stand up, the sharp leaves cutting through the combat armor and his flesh. His body just fell lifeless after staggering back and muttering a "No... fucking... way..."
A chuckle came from behind me, obviously from the girl. "Guess you know Leaf Storm now." Her claws had already reformed into hands.
"Yeah, guess that can truly "leaf" many corpses if controlled properly." I made a horrible pun, feeling exhausted. "Damn it, so tired..."
"Hey, you feeling okay?"the girl asked, understandably worried.
"Why's... my... vision's... blurring..." I inchorently muttered out as my eyelids started to close before I fell forward, unconsciousness. The last thing I heard was the girl shouting at me to wake up, her attempts futile.
[In Serpent's mind]
"Come on! We are gonna miss out on all the rides!" a boy's voice could be heard.
"Heh, just calm down! We have a lot of time left Royston!" my disembodied voice told this "Royston". Wait, disembodied? Am I dead or something? Better hope its the latter.
"Hahaha!"both me and Royston's voices were heared laughing. As much as I wish to stay in this... place longer, life (by now I should have expected) hates me and "expelled" be from this place, causing my eyes to snap open as I woke up only to see the red jacket clad girl, another hybrid sitting opposite to her and me in a cave, the two of them looking at me.
[Sometime before Serpent wakes up]
Riley's POV
"And you know the rest." I told the Lucario hybrid, clad in a gray test subject "garments", although his chest spike was obvious thanks to it tearing through the shirt, and gloves with dark blue highlights,a sitting opposite to me in the cave where the both of us,three if you count the unconscious Servine hybrid laying on the floor of the cave, were in right cloak the former had on him is placed,neatly folded, by him"And thanks for carrying him here, uh...""It's okay, just helping out another hybrid in need. I'll introduce myself when... speak of the devil." The Lucario hybrid looked towards the Servine hyrbid, the latter having just woken up. Took him a long time to finally regain consciousness. "Ughh... how long was it out?" "Give or take, 12 hours."I told him,
"And I have to carry your sorry ass myself if our friend here *motioning to the Lucario hybrid* did not happen to find me."The Servine hybrid, understandably embarrassed about the situation, muttered out a apology and thanks before asking,"Never caught your names, who are you two?"
"Shouldn't you introduce yourself first? A little rude not to do so you know." The Lucario hybrid told the hooded hybrid.
"Fair enough," the latter sighed as he continued,"those ass-holes we all know as Deadwatch named me Nature Serpent, just call me Serpent for short. For my real name, I... have no idea. In fact, I have no memories of my past,friends, family... you get the idea. I have my theories of my ammesia, but that's not exactly relevant right Deadwatch assholes, they held me in a testing facility in the forest we were at a testing chamber, they made me go a "survival stimulus" or aka, sending hungry-for-people monsters, before trying to kill me by incineration. To add insult to injury (literally), two of the soldiers shot me, in the face. What they didn't expect was that I survived all that and... its better if I so you." Serpent finished and showed his right hand, tendrils forming at his palm." And that happened. I grabbed one of the guys and ... leeched his biomass to recover all my injuries." He shuddered as he recalled using that move."Bio-leeching still freaks me the fuck out. Anyway, I fought back more monsters before getting burned, again. This time I regenerated through photosynthesis and probably due to my body still absorbing biomass. Soon I escaped through the testing chamber's window, out of the damn place and soon met her." he continued on, pointing to me."Right now, my main concerns are regaining my past memories and making all those responsible pay."
"You're lucky..." I muttered out, this obviously caught Serpent's attention."E-excuse me?"
"Nevermind about that," with that, although one of Serpent's eyebrows were raised, he decided to let me off for now.
"Okay my turn. My name is , it's my real name and no, I'm not a guy, I am a girl," glaring at Serpent who sweatdropped and said,"Can't ya let bygones be bygones about that now, I did apologise right?" "Anyway,back to topic, the Deadwatch experimented, did things to me... I don't want to be reminded about it, though. I'll defeat them all one day, all those who made my life hell.
So I suppose we are the same for that part Serpent."
Crimson's POV
"I guess it's my turn now, here goes.I'm Crimson, called that probably due to my crimson eyes. Like Serpent, I have no memories of my past but I don't care about all that. I actually had no idea, as in how I managed escaped. Someone triggered the emergency evacuation, and every test subject's door opened. Of course, out of instinct, everyone ran out for the exits. Using the Aura invisibility cloak I was given thanks to those suckers, I managed to get outside in the confusion. Outside though, all test subjects, except Yours Truly, got caught and were subdued very quickly, that's when I heard the news, a test subject,codenamed Forest Serpent, triggered the evacuation on its escape. Guess I have to thank you for that." I said, smirking at Serpent, who just waved it off,saying he had no idea that happened since he was running for his life."As for what I want to do now, I do not care much about taking revenge and more on finding out why did they do this to me."
"Anyway,"Serpent started, looking out through the cave and at the night sky,"I'll take the first shift and guard, you guys go ahead and sleep, I have rested long enough earlier thanks to my energy having recovered from my extremely long "nap" earlier." I noticed that Riley walked to one side of the cave, head lowered as she sat down on the rocky floor. "You okay Riley?"
"Yeah... I'm fine don't worry-"
"No, you're not."
"How the-"
"I can sense your emotions through your Aura, negative emotions darken it. Just tell me what's wrong." I walked towards her and sat beside her.
"You won't understand Crimson."
"I will not say that I know what you're going through..."
"Damn right you don't!"She shouted at me, fresh tears running down her cheeks."I remember every single fucking thing that Deadwatch did to me! Every night, I have to relive every damn second of it when I close my eyes to sleep! I wish I were like you guys...having no memories of what they did to me. It's having a clean slate, a new life... that's all I am asking for."To her surprise, I hugged accepted the hug, still sobbing onto my shoulders.
"Actually, it's up to , I'll agree that losing your memories has its advantages, in terms of believing that you can start life afresh. But others might see it more of a curse than it is a blessing."
"Why?"
"You see, at least you have those happy memories you had with your friends and families.I might not have memories of what they did to me, but I do not have memories of my past, all those happy times with my family, assuming I had any. Any memory that I have now, almost every bit of it is of me suffering, with the exception of meeting you both of course. Try to remember and focus on all those happy memories of your life, that may help to ease the emotional pain, even if it is only a little bit. I guess Serpent is still wondering about why you said that he is lucky."
"It's best that I'll tell him that myself." Riley told me before drifting to sleep."Oh, and thanks for the talk, I probably needed it."
Nodding my head, I walked towards the Servine hybrid, who acknowledged my presence with a slight nod of hiis head."Serpent, I gotta talk to you about your powers."
"What about them?"
"You have that draining move right? The one you called Bio-Leech?"
" how it works though."
"How do you think it works?"
"How it works? Hmm ... let's put it this way, imagine that I am a plant, mind you technically I am like one, absorbing water and mineral salts through my roots. The tendrils are the roots, my body being the plant. Basically each time when I use it, I convert the "leeched" guys' own biomass to my own, and repairs most wounds I have on me then. However, when I first absorbed the biomass of the Neo-hunter,the tendrils retract itself on their own after some absorption. That's when I first used Leaf Storm."
"I have this theory, maybe when your body absorb the biomass of Neo-hunters, if you can use the moves they have on them, your body will adapt and "learn" the moves?"
"Possibly, but after absorbing his biomass and using my own leaf storm, it exhausts me. It feels like my body is forcing itself to use the move against my own limit and hence I was unconscious earlier due to over exertion."
"If that's the case, I think I can help you to counter that."
And that's that!
I am still accepting OCs, but the OC form has one change.
I have decided to change the type-village affliation into the Evolved affliation (aka Anti-Deadwatch) that's all.
The OC form is at chapter 1.
Anyway, please give me constructive criticism and hope to see new OCs for Evolve and Survive! (oh, can we have some Deadwatch/BioArch OCs as well?)
[StylishDescent logging out]