Tyra scowled up at them as their leader looked down at them, "Those of you that convert to our side willingly will be rewarded," he continued, "those who do not will be assymilated."
Tyra pushed his way to the front of the crowd, "Like hell," he said, getting their leader's attention.
"Ah, Tyra," he said, "one of our best underground fighters. It was a shame to lose you, you don't know how elated I am to be getting you back."
"I already paid my retirement fee, screw you," Tyra said, visibly enraged as he stepped forward, he didn't get far only placing a foot on the first step before the main raised his hand.
"I wouldn't do that," Approach me any further and I'll have my men open fire on the crowd, do you think you can live with that?
Tyra scowled, glancing over to Elli as she held onto Zara's hand, the little girl obviousy terrified. "Am I really that important to you and your stupid games?" Tyra asked.
"Games? No," he said, "As a soldier, yes. I chose your opponents in the underground very specifically, to make you into the perfect warrior. I wanted to share this prosperity with you, as a partner."
"Not interested," Tyra said as he took another step, he figured that there were at minimum three psycics that could probably keep the crowd safe.
"So brash," the man said, "that's what I admire about you but it seems you need some more incentive." He snapped his fingers and another one of his minions just appeared next to him, holding Zara in his arms.
"When did you?" Tyra muttered as he looked back over and Elli who just now realized Zara was gone. "Teleport," Tyra said, answering his own question as Elli came over to join him, glaring at the man that held her daughter.
"Put her down before I kill you," she growled.
There was a high pitched laugh as a round, black head moved up over the man's shoulder, "Come over to our side and we won't have to hurt her," it teased.
Tyra smirked, "You're not as smart as you think you are," he said that tail was a dead giveaway. A Girafarig, a psycic type, he couldn't hurt Zara if he wanted to. He didn't give any other warning before suddenly charging up the stairs, the syndicate thugs open firing on the crowd. As expected MewTwo, Vince and Dakotah erected a barrier that caught their bullets. Tyra swung at their leader as he drew close but he dodged quickly, Tyra didn't even see him draw a sword before he noticed the mask on his face was cut in half and had fallen to the floor.
"An unfortunate outcome," he said as he sheathed his blade, turning to the girafarig. "Deal with this," he said before turning to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?" Tyra asked as elli caught up to him but he stopped when the syndicate thugs turned their guns to him, Tyra may have bee Rock-Type but even his flesh wasn't impervious to bullets.
The girafarig chuckled, "I can see why the boss is fond of you," he said as his tail was already charging a psybeam.
Tyra only smiled at him, "Go ahead, see what happens."
The girafarig laughed, "you must not be very good at hostage situations," he said just before his tail released the blast. Zara closed her eyes and braced herself, but nothing happened. The girafarig looked to panick, "Wait that means she's..."
"Dark-Type," Tyra said with a grin before Elli rushed forward, driving a punch into his face. Before the others could turn their guns on her TYra released a wide dark pulse wave, knocking them back over the railing to be dealt with by the people below who quickly fougth back against them. The girafarig panicked and ran, still holding onto Zara as Elli and Tyra gave chase. He was surprisingly fast as they chased him to the bow of the ship.
"Stop right there!" he called, rather confidant in himself as he held Zara out over the edge, "One mroe step and I drop her."
He began to monolouge about the syndicate and their goals as Elli walked forward, "He's stuck in an illusion," she said.
Tyra smirked, "Good, get Zara and get out of the way," he said as he began to charge a Hyper Beam.
Elli ran over to Zara and took her from her captor and qucikly moved to the side, "Hey," she called, apparently dropping the illusion. "For somene with two heads, you're not very bright." She pointed to Tyra and the girafarig turned and his expression dropped the instant he saw what was coming. Tyra didn't give him much time to think about it as he suddenly released the Hyper Beam, hitting him full force and breaking through the railing and knocking him far off into the ocean.
Tyra stood there for a moment, catching his breath. "You two alright?" he asked, looking to them.
Zara clung to her mother, who nodded to him. "Good," Tyra said, "I'm going after their boss." He turned and found Dakota standing there.
"Things are going well up here?" she asked with a smirk. "We've got the situation under controll downstairs but MewTwo wanted me to give you this." She took his hand and put a small pill into it.
"A skill pill?" Tyra asked as he looked at it, MewTwo's company manufactured them. Ingesting them can teach a person a new skill, way faster and more efficiant than trying to lean something the old fasioned way, there were also many that contained skills that couldn't be taught naturally.
"Yeah, he says it's Metal Claw," she said, "if you're going after their boss you'll need something that can stand up to those blades of his."
Tyra sighed, she wasn't wrong but he didn't like the idea of taking something that MewTwo had a hand in but he didn't have a choice. He closed his eyes and tossed the pill into his mouth, swallowing it. Within seconds he felt it take effect, the skin on his forearms suddenly hardening into metal, giving him claws at his fignertips. Tyra looked down at his hands, a bit impressed, "Yeah," he said, "this'll do."
"You know where he's at?" Elli asked as she walked over to them, Zara in her arms.
"I'm gonna check the helipad first," Tyra said. "I know the Syndicate more than I'd like to, it's not likely someone like their boss would stoop low enough to steal a lifeboat."
"Need help?" Dakotah asked.
Tyra shook his head, "No, I can handle him, go help take care of the henchmen, make sure they don't have anything else up their sleeves and help keep the other guests calm."
Dakotah nodded, "Good luck," she said before running back to the ballroom.
Elli looked to Tyra for a moment, "Just come back," she said before going after Dakotah.
Tyra turned and took off running toward the back of the ship where the helipad was located on the ship's roof. As he made his way there the wind began to pick up and a thunderstorm could be seen brewing in the distance. He picked up the pace and eventually came to the roof of the ship where their boss was waiting on the helipad, just standign there with his arms behind his back as if he knew Tyra would come to face him.
"Arrogant son of a bitch," Tyra said as he stepped up to the helipad. "You really stand here for how long waiting for me to show up?"
"You showed up didn't you?" he said. "That was very impressive how you took care of my lieutenant."
"A little too much overkill if you ask me," Tyra said, "hindsight's twenty-twenty right? And that was a pretty stupid choice for a lieutenant if you ask me."
"His promotion was only for this mission," He said, "honestly I expected you to kill him, save me the trouble of doing it myself."
Tyra scowled, "I'm not a killer," he said, "You should know that by now, how many fights in your ring? How many of those fighters I spared?"
"I hoped a more dire situation would push you over that edge," He said, "it seems you requre a harder push."
Tyra balled his hands into fists, "I'm tired of this conversation."
The Syndicate boss drew both of his swords, "Ready when you are."
Tyra growled, "Come on!" He shouted as the boss charged, dashing forward, swinging his blades as he got close. He was fast, Tyra could barely keep up as he blocked his attacks, his blades clashing with the metal coating over his arms. Tyra suddenly saw an opening and countered, slashing with his clawed hands. The boss noticed his slip up and stepped back, barely missing Tyra's attack as his claws cut through his coat
"Impressive," he taunted, "your species isn't known for their speed, "What did you sacrifice for that?"
Tyra didn't answer as he went on the offensive, rushing toward him clawing at him furiously. As expected he was quick to defend, Tyra kept poking his defenses, looking for another opening. Not finding one he stepped back, luring him in as he tired to go on the offensive until Tyra released a Dark Pulse. He hit it headfirst and was knocked back, tumblint to the ground. Tyra didn't give him the chance to get up as he chased after him, trying to stomp on one or both of his hands, getting him to drop the swords
The boss saw this coming and rolled away, getting up quickly, pausing to catch his breath. "Such fury," he said, "I've observed your battles and longed to experience it myself. Let me tell you somethint, Tyra. This entire operation was to get you, I'm not interested in this ship or the people on it. All I want is for you to understand our cause."
"What cause? All you do is destroy and kill," Tyra said.
"Only the beginning," The boss said, "this world does not belong to the legendaries, it should be governed by the people as we see fit. We will soon get their full attention, draw them out and one by one hunt them down."
"Not interested," Tyra said.
"Not surprising," He continued, "You haven't seen the world like I have. Do you even know why we value you so much?"
"My strength?" Tyra asked.
"Your power," he replied. "Do you know what your kind are called? Psudo-legendaries, mortals who can stand on equal footing with the gods. And Tyranitars aren't the only ones, there are dozens of different species who fit this class. With enough of them even Arceus will kneel before us."
"And I thought MewTwo was a psyco," Tyra said.
The boss suddenly rushed forward, attacking quckly as Tyra grabbed his blades.
"Join me, Tyra," he said, "we can be partners and I can elevate you to rise above the gods"
"Screw you!" Tyra said as he snapped his swords in two, dropping the broken blades Tyra drove a hard punch straight into the boss' helmete, smashing the glass and causing a large chunk to break off as he tumbled away. As he got up there was suddenly a spotlight that shined overhead. Tyra looked up as a Syndicate helecopter descended from above, dropping a rope ladder so their boss could climb up. Tyra looked at him and saw the part of his face revealed. His most notable feature was the white hair. Tyra suddenly remembered the man that spoke to him on the deck today.
Tyra watched as their boss climbed up onto the ladder and the helecopter rose into the air. Tyra couldn't stop him, after that Hyper Beam he was already tired and this fight took whatever he had left, he was lucky to even stand.
Tyra could only watch as the helecopter flew away, once it was gone thunder and lightning began to crash overhead, rain coming down in a torrent. The sudden storm caused the ship to rock much more then usual and as Tyra calmed down fromt he adrenaline he finally noticed the fatigue from the fight, then something else hit him. Tyra stumbled as his seasickness came back with a vengence, Tyra realized that he hadn't taken any of those pills in a while. The sudden nausiea coupled with his wearyeness caused him to fall to the ground and lose conciousness.
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Tyra woke suddenly and sat up, groaning as he flet his muscles protest to the movement.
"You're finally up," Elli's said, Tyra turned to see her getting up from a chair. "You've been out for a few hours now."
Tyra rubbed his aching head, "What time is it?" he asked.
"About ten in the morning," she replied, "we found you up on the roof shortly after the storm started. You were pretty banged up but you didn't have any serious wounds so MewTwo brought you here and asked me to keep an eye on you." She walked over to mini fridge in the room and pulled a bottle of water and his seasickness pills from the nearby table. "Vince was pretty thankful to you for saving his ship," she said as she brought the water and the pills over to him. "He says anything you want is on the house, though MewTwo was footing the bill it's still a nice gesture."
"How generous of him," he said as he took opened the pills and shook a few into his hand, tossing them into his mouth, taking a drink of the water. "And how's Zara?"
"She's pretty shaken up," Elli said, "She's afraid to come out of the room, she's there with Mew now. We'll be docking in Kanto tomorrow morning so I'll let you get some rest. My room's number 204, call it if you need anything." She smiled and leaned down, giving him a sudden kiss. "And thanks," she said before getting up and walking over to the door, leaving him alone.
Tyra sat there for a moment, dumbfounded before sighing and laying back down, going back to sleep.
