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Joe Lawyer
I am having Tamer G working towards making himself more famous and using that fame for his own ends. You'll see some of that in this chapter and you'll see that he's becoming more motivated now for reasons also explained here.
About what you said about Sukebe.
The creators of the pokegirl universe wanted to make a world where humans need pokes to fight for them like pokemon so it wouldn't make sense for Sukebe or for Gothic to make himself god like because then that could led to other people doing the same and he wouldn't need pokes any more.
That said the lore does say the Sukebe was a great mage so maybe he was as powerful as a legendary pokegirl, a few of them did die during the war so it wouldn't have made him unstoppable.
As for Tamer G becoming a god. Well that's not what this story is about. He's driven to become a Harem-Master for now, he's been working on it for a decade and more, so he won't give up on that up. Later on if he wanted more well he has centuries ahead of him so there's no rush.
I went back and edited that chapter so that it should say twenty years rather then ten. I did proof read that chapter so I don't know why I didn't spot the mistake.
Yes he is a better Tamer now, and that will be noticable when he deals with threats more easily. He's not really worried about S-goths and the Limbacs now because he can handle them. What concerns him these days is the new arena he has to fight in, one where words are sometimes more deadly than weapons.
Tamer Gothic – Book Three – Battle City
Reporter
Hospital – Thrill Town
After ensuring that two of the three female members of Team Gothic were in good shape I'd ducked into the nearest toilets so that I could splash some cold water onto my face. I was feeling stressed as Battle City had only just started and already a number of pokegirls had died. Granted they were my enemies, but I felt this was a bad start to the event I also worried that more harm could befall the people and pokes that I cared about.
Over the last ten years I hadn't been concerned too much about the fate of the world as that was the Shadow Lord's responsibility, and for the last decade of my life I hadn't been the Chosen One so saving everybody had been the job of some real heroes.
I'd fought alongside such a champion back in the Blue League so I knew that I wasn't really a good guy. Yet at I couldn't just let everyone on the planet die so I had to do my best. My mission now was to make sure that neither Nightshade, my clone who wasn't a Pureblood, or Jayden won this contest, and at the same time I had protect my team from the kind of attacks they wouldn't see coming.
At least in the short term I wasn't in any kind of trouble with Mr House. After all rushing people to the hospital was an acceptable excuse for missing work. However now that I knew Misty and Nikita were okay I had to get back out there. Yet my feet refused to move.
"Stresses of the job getting to you?" a female voice asked.
Given that this was the gents this meant a woman shouldn't be in here.
"This is no place for a lady" I remarked.
I checked the human female out using the mirror and for a second I thought she was just a Tamer who might be making contact with me in order to gain some advantage, but something about her look wasn't right.
"So your a reporter" I guessed.
She was too old to be female Tamer who was still seeking out a regional championship any woman who was stilling doing this job at her age would be a Harem-Master at least. Perhaps even a well known Gym Leader. This woman had be at least twenty-five, and while she'd dressed to make herself look a little younger it hadn't worked. Also I was pretty sure that she was a Pureblood.
Not a true one as there were only a handful of people in the world who had all human ancestors going back to the Revenge War, but the reddish blond hair, and normal looking blues eyes both suggested to me that she didn't have many pokes in her family tree. Sure there were human girls with red hair who weren't purebloods, but they tended to have more vibrant shades, even orange hair like Misty had.
Besides I'd been living in this world for over a decade so I knew that female Tamers don't wear fancy shoes, they wouldn't even carry a pair that expensive with them as they'd only get ruined. Also her skirt was totally wrong for a Tamer.
"Oh I'm not a reporter" she tried to assure me "I'm a Tamer like you. My name's Vicky".
I turned around and gave the woman my most charming smile.
"No you're a reporter" I said "Would you like to know how I know?".
She simply nodded.
"Aside from your shoes, which would be totally ruined outdoors, your wearing a lose skirt" I explained "If you wore that then it would get caught on branches the first time you tried to sneak up on a feral. Then there's the fact that you're wearing too much make up for a Tamer. All the ones I know might dab on a bit of lipstick or eyeliner if they want to impress a guy like me, but most don't need to do as pokegirl genes give a woman naturally beauty".
I realised then that I might be insulting her so I quickly diverted her attention to something else.
"However what really clued me in is the handbag" I said "Female Tamers never use handbags. They're too easy to lose, like me they use special pouches. But what really clued me in is the switched on tape recorder you have in the handbag".
That'd really given it all away. It was so sloppy that I suspected that she had on some level wanted to me figure it out.
"Oh fuck!" Vicky swore.
She turned off the recorder and looked at me sheepishly.
"Sorry" she apologised "The paper sent me to get me a story on you".
I sighed softly.
"No one ever just asks" I complained "I swear that everyone in the Crimson League loves these silly games".
Things had been simpler in the Blue League. Sure the nobles had their power struggles, but they tended to end up being sorted out in duels or through the odd assassination. Which were at least direct and they rarely involved head games.
"I didn't think you'd give a rookie like me the big scoop" Vicky confessed "Nobody knows how this competition really works, other than they need Locator Cards that make a map to somewhere in the city. I was hoping you would think I was just a Tamer who needed help. That way you might drop me a few hints".
Now I was thinking that I could use this meeting to my advantage.
"What's your real name?" I inquired.
She answered right away.
"I really am called Vicky" she told me "Vicky Vale".
My Psychic Charm had no measurable effect on humans with little or no pokegirl DNA, but I didn't need it in order to get what I wanted. I was confident and powerful, that was sometimes enough.
"Okay Miss Vale. Pull down your panties" I ordered "Do it slowly and then take them off. I want them for my collection".
I wasn't just thinking that I could have some fun as I didn't even have a collection, well not yet. I had a practical reason for making her do that.
"What?" a confused reporter inquired.
I smiled again and rested my hands on the sinks behind me.
"You heard me" I said "If you want that story then you'll get on my terms".
In the world I came from doing this would be cruel, but here it was just a bit of fun, and I so got off on it when she did as I had instructed. Also given the sexy underwear she had been wearing I knew that she would have been willing to have sex with me to get some information. That wouldn't work as I was all tapped out. Six cans of recovery meant that I was out of babybatter right now.
"You know I do have PR people" I told Vicky Vale "You should have gone to them if you wanted an interview".
I could see the hope leave her eye so I restored it.
"Listen I can't tell you about Battle City" I said as I put her panties into my pouch "But afterwards we can sit down and can tell you everything that happened. The exclusive story, no one else gets a word to print".
I'd actually taken her underwear for this reason. If she bad mouthed me in her paper then I would be able to find her using a scrying spell. Well actually I couldn't perform such a spell however Raven was more than talented enough to.
"That would great!" the reporter cheered before trying to kiss me.
I stopped her.
"We can do that after I give you the story" I said to the eager young reporter "You only have to wait a few days. Save yourself for me".
With that I turned to leave, then I had an idea.
"Vicky lift up your skirt" I ordered.
This time she did as she was told without delay and I took a moment to check out her cunt. It passed inspection.
"Turn around for me" I then commanded.
Her ass was cute enough.
"Miss Vale, I think you and are going to get along swimmingly" I said as I exited the room.
Having my own reporter would be handy if I managed her right, but that was something I could look into further at a later date, for now I had to work to do.
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Rooftops – Thrill Town
As it turned out there was nothing wrong with Misty or Nikita as they had been knocked out by magic rather than by drugs so the Nurse Joy had let them loose, and soon after that I had gathered all of Team Gothic on the flat roof of one of the smaller buildings.
"Why did you bring us up here?" Nikita inquired.
I had two reasons in fact.
"Because I have a nice new coat" I replied "and standing on a roof with a long black coat on is very cool".
As important as that was it wasn't the main reason why we were up here.
"Okay everyone lets try out these Scouters" I said.
The Scouters were devices that Tamers could wear over one eye, like half a visor. They linked up to our 'dexs and allowed us to scan pokegirls without needing to open our 'dexs as the information was displayed on a green coloured lens. They could also be used to scan other Tamers and to link to their 'dexs so we could learn about each other. Aside from all that we could use them to video chat with friends, and even listen to music, but those features weren't important right now.
Since I'd spent most of the last ten years in a nation that liked to use magic combined with Victorian levels of technology for most things, these Scouters were more high-tech than I was used to, however I knew that the Crimson League was progressing technological and that I needed to keep up with the trends.
"I thought they only used these things in the Crescent League" Gary commented as we all studied the crowd below "How come we have them".
This I could answer.
"Its because of what they're pulling out of the Lost City of Atlanta" I explained "I stopped off there on the way here, and they've found enough plastic and old computers to make it worth while buying enough Scouters for all the Tamers at Battle City".
The Crescent League, which had one been part of the USA, specialised in building small electronic devices that couldn't be matched anywhere else. They made the best 'dexs, the best pokeballs and now Scouters.
"I found out that the Corporation is recycling everything that the diggers find" I then said "The League got us these things on credit and the Crescent League is getting tons of plastic and metal later on".
What I found curious was that the Corporation, the one that pretty much ran this League, were selling them so cheaply to us Tamers. The leaders of this nation were investing a lot of resources into this generation of Tamers
I didn't know why exactly. My only guess was that had something to do with what Mr House kept going on about when he discussed the long term economic growth of the Kanto Region and by extension the whole League. Perhaps ten years ago I'd had a clearer picture of things, but after a decade away I needed to get caught up.
"While there I also found out there there's secret project going on somewhere near Thrill Town" I told the group "At lot of materials have been diverted to a hidden base".
The project itself was generating a lot of rumours among the scientific community, and I'd heard that Washu was running the show. However no one knew much beyond that.
"What kind of secret project?" Jayden asked me.
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes.
"If I knew that then it wouldn't be a secret" I replied.
After all I wasn't only a Regional Champion, and an associate member of the Hunter's Guild so while I did have access to information the average Tamer did not, this did not mean I was told things that were classified.
"Power levels are crap anyway" Gary then said "Tamers just assume the highest level is better and they forget all about elemental weaknesses".
In my experience they tended to do that a lot.
"What a T-level?" Forest asked.
This I could not answer.
"The T stands for Talent" Gary explained.
Given that his grandfather worked with advanced tech all the time it made sense that Gary already knew about Scouters.
"The Scouter looks at your record, like how many badges you've got, how many battles you have won, blood gifts, stuff like that and it ranks you between one and one hundred on scale" Gary went on to stay "A total newbie whose just gotten his license is only level one, and no has ever reached one hundred".
While he'd been talking I'd looked up the T-level of everyone, and I was upset to find out what I wasn't even at twenty. In fact I was only just above level ten.
"Level 12!" I shouted "How am I only at Level 12!".
Misty was at T-Level 35, and she was a Harem-Master so that made sense and Forest was at Level 5, but he was a brand new Tamer so that was okay. But I'd been Taming for ten years, and I was the Shadow Lord of Tamers, I should at least rate a twenty.
"You're only a Regional Champion" Misty pointed out as she looked at me with her Scouter "That only gets you enough points for five more levels at most, and then there's the bounties, but yeah that only adds a more few points so 12 is pretty high. Jayden's lower than you and he was Taming a whole year before you started".
I almost growled. I wasn't that upset it was just that I was now feeling that I hadn't really achieved that much. Still it was odd as I'd had a lot of sex last night.
"Stupid points system" I then muttered.
Each level required more points that the last so when a Tamer was new to the job it was easy to go up in levels. Forest had advanced two levels just by catching a load of ferals. If not for the fact that were harmless bunnygirls he'd have advanced much further.
If the last ten years of my had been taken into account I'd be far beyond Misty's level by now simply due to all the bounties I'd collected, but the Scouter was only taking into account my life as the Shadow Lord as the 'dex I was using was registered to that name.
"Oh sweetie, don't sulk" Nikita said to me "I'm only at T-level 8 and you don't hear me whining like a spoilt child".
I should have calmed down at this point.
"No I do not accept this" I replied "I will earn more points".
Sadly it wasn't going to be easy.
"You can't" Amy told me "Your suppose to be helping run Battle City, which means you can't go around trying to win pokebattles right now".
I finally calmed down then. I couldn't sustain the feeling as it was only a scoreboard.
"Okay fine but after this contest we are hitting some Gyms" I decided "We all need knew badges".
This time it was Misty who burst my bubble.
"I don't want to go see the Gyms I've already been to" she said "And you promised we could travel. I want to go somewhere I've never been before".
My clever brain came up with a way we could do both.
"Have you guys ever heard of the New Frontier?" I asked the Team.
Thomas had, but no one else nodded their heads.
"Well I'm sure you all do know that the Dark League isn't really a League at all" I then said "There's no real government over there".
That was true, there were nations within what I knew as Africa, however unlike the rest of the world the different human settlements didn't answer to a national leadership like everyone in the Leagues did. It was a rough place, but there were parts of it more civilized than the rest.
"The New Frontier bases are like gyms that are on the Dark Continent" I went on to explain "They're run by Tamers who work for different Leagues and they serve as outposts".
I wasn't sure what the outposts were actually for, as I'd never been to one, so I figured we could go find out. In the last turn I'd not explored as much as I could have because I knew I'd need something to do over the next couple of centuries.
"You can get badges from the outposts" I was now saying "And what makes them special is that the frontier counts as a region so if we get eight each then we could enter the League championship next year".
Not that I needed them as I could enter that contest whenever I wished.
"Plus there are pokegirls there you'd never see here" I added.
That sounded tempting to me, and while their we'd be closer to the Goths, but since they'd seemed to be able to find Thomas anywhere he went the matter of distance wasn't that important.
"I don't know" said Misty "I heard that the Dark League is pretty rough".
She wasn't worried about herself, she worried about her little passenger.
"Don't worry about, Momma" I assured her "I travelled all over the Blue League and I went to the Indigo and the Edo Leagues by myself without so much as breaking my arm".
Although I had gotten a sexy scar.
"So I'm sure that as a Team we'll be fine" I then said "We've got some tough pokes between us and Daphne can always fly you out of danger".
Tom added something helpful.
"There are suppose to be trains and blimps that can take you from outpost to outpost" he told the gang "So as longer as we don't wander into the wilderness we should be okay".
Everyone now seemed to be okay with this new plan, and there was no reason why they shouldn't be as part of being a Tamer was about going to exotic places.
"Oh thousand gods what is that noise" I said when something assaulted me with what only a heavy drug user could call music "Its horrible".
It had to die whatever it was.
"That's your Scouter" Gary told me "Someone's calling you".
This made no sense as everyone who had my number was here with me.
"Press the green button" the grandson of Professor Oak instructed "That accepts the call".
I did just that.
"Errr hello?" I asked.
There was a video and it felt like it was playing on my eyeball.
"Sir, you're needed down in Arena 2" a pokegirl told me "A Tamer has just a lost a salvage battle to some weird guys in purple robes. This wouldn't normally be a problem, but he's claiming that they threatened him. Mr House wishes for you to investigate".
It seemed as if it was time to go to work.
"Okay I'll be there in a few moments" I told the caller before I cut connection and turned to my Team Mates "I have to tend to something you guys go start winning Locator Cards, but don't wander off by yourself".
Misty grabbed my arm before I could head off.
"I'm hanging with you, remember" she said.
Truthfully I had forgotten that she wasn't taking part, and I wasn't stupid enough to tell her that.
"Okay sexy Momma follow me" I told her.
And she did we even ended up holding hands. Which was nice.