Sinful's back Bitches~! Just in time for the fourth of July no less.
Thomas woke up a few minutes later with Huey now in control. He rubbed his head, "Ugh, that could have gone better." "No shit." I said, "Let's go, we need to get Nina and the others back."
"Why would they take our pokegirls? None of them were bug types." Sasha questioned. "My guess is they need test subjects." Huey said, "They need to make sure their elixir works. So yeah, we really do need to get them back, because if they test on them, whether it adds the bug element or not, they won't be them after the test."
"Alright, let's go." I said, turning towards the tunnel the Swarm grunts had gone down, and looking back in confusion when Huey grabbed my wrist to stop me, "Hang on, we need to hurry, but if we rush in guns blazing with no plan it'll be as good as if we'd done nothing at all. We need to plan. Thankfully, I'm great at siege warfare. Needing to instigate a rescue makes things more difficult, not to mention the fact that now the enemy is aware that we're here and will likely be expecting us to attack them at some point and will have have extra defenses set up, but I can manage. You and Sasha take stock of what all supplies we have, weapons, normal items, etc. I need to know what all I'm working with."
On some level, I understood Huey was right, but I couldn't help getting pissed off at this. Team Swarm had our 'girls, they had Nina, and they were going to test their creepy insect potions on them, I couldn't just sit around counting the E-medals Riley had collected in Cerulean. I needed to do something. Fortunately, or possibly unfortunately depending on how you look at it, Sasha felt the same way.
"We've got our pokegirls, we know where they are, let's go right now. If it's just the two of us, we can sneak in before the Swarm grunts see us, get our 'girls, and get back to camp before Huey and Riley even notice we're gone." Sasha said. I nodded, grinning at the idea. "Right, let's go." We were both deluded out of our skulls, but what can I say? They took our pokegirls.
Sasha and I headed down the cave quickly without Riley or Huey following us. It didn't take us long to find the hive, it wasn't exactly a subtle base when you knew which cave to look in. We headed down towards to closest building to us, and that was when things went to hell.
Two Swarm grunts saw us straight away. Huey hadn't been wrong about them expecting us, and looking back, I don't know how either of us thought we could just sneak in without any clue where inside we were even supposed to look. Fight for flight kicked in and we sent out our 'girls to battle. The grunts, did the same, sending out three tall bug type 'girls.
The first was a human looking for a few moments, with dark black skin and piercing red eyes, then shifted into another form, becoming a spider-taur of sorts. Her lower body morphed into that of a spider, her legs splitting into three pairs with a black widow symbol appearing on the bulbous back end. Sharp mandibles sprouted on either side of her mouth, and her arms became thinner with sharp claws.
Arachnae, the sassy spider pokegirl. This two formed pokegirl (a humanoid form for taming and a spider form for combat) is excellent at controlling other bug pokegirl, and is often caught by tamers to help reign in other strong pokegirls.
The second girl was another spider-taur of sorts, but was already in combat mode upon being released. Her skin was yellow-brown, and rather than the lower body resembling a black widow, it showed that of a scorpion, having a massive tail ending in a stinger and two scissor-like claws.
Scorpiagirl, the pathmaker pokegirl. This aggressive pokegirl is used to great effect both in combat and in reclaiming land, as their ability to convert matter from certain materials into a polymer upon eating it makes them good for clearing out intrusive plants and stone, which will become a sort of armor around the pokegirl's body after digestion.
The last pokegirl was the most insect like, with compound eyes, a thick exoskeleton over her entire purple body, and a large pair of multi-colored wings. Her feminine traits were still visible, but they looked mostly unnerving next to the insect parts, even more so than with the spider/scorpian-taur.
Veno-Miss, the poison moth pokegirl. Not the physically strongest pokegirl, Veno-Misses enjoy battling from a distance using the variety of poisons that form on their scaled wings. Said scales can also detach and be sold for a decent price, formed into armor or jewelry, or used in combat to blind or distract an enemy.
Sasha had Clara and Sophia out, knowing that Zara wasn't ready for battle. I had Bet, Lizzy, Cary, and Zoe. Zoe wasn't quite up to strategically combat ready, but she had her instincts and we were in her home terrain.
Bet and Cary focused on the Veno-Miss, as Bet could fly and Cary could most easily jump and attack in mid-air. Lizzy and Clara battled the Arachnae, the biggest and strongest of the bug 'girls. Zoe and and Sophia, who could most easily avoid the heavy attacks, battled the Scorpiagirl. But this wasn't the average pokegirl fight, this was a viscous, brutal battle. Bet no longer had to hold back her attacks, her talons ripping into the Veno-Miss, Sophia's fangs taking out small chunks of the Scorpiagirl, the enemy pokegirl's attacks each meant to mortally wound, and me and Sasha fighting the Swarm grunts directly.
I say we both fought, but the most I could really do was swing at one of them when they got close enough while Sasha, who had long since activated her water aura and could battle feral pokegirls, fought the grunts. I'm not sure how long it went on, but at some point the Swarm pokegirls fell unconscious. Fpr a few seconds, I thought we had won, and would be able to actually save our 'girls without anymore trouble.
And then one of the grunts shouted, "Oh fuck this! Send out Jasper!"
The other grunt chucked out a pokeball, and literally the worst possible thing came out.
Widow, the RUN FOR YOUR LIFE IF YOU SEE ONE POKEGIRL. Recommended if seen thirty feet away: Turn around and run full tilt. If Twenty feet away: Fall to your knees and pray to your preferred deity. If ten feet away: None, because you're probably already dead.