We were all sitting just outside the charred remains of the Team Swarm base, the few living members had been found and captured by Huey after he called in the OfficerJennys, and now there was nothing left to do but wait for them to show up and take the remaining Swarm members away.

Sasha and Riley were sitting nearby me, Sasha seeming upset about not knowing about the Yggdra that seemed to do my bidding, and Riley carving apricorns he'd taken from his bag into pokeballs to calm his nerves. Well, that explained where he got them all.

"I've had the Yggdra since I was about thirteen. Well, if I'm honest I'm pretty sure I've always had her, just only saw her for the first time when I was thirteen." I said. "And how in the hell did you catch a Yggdra?" Riley questioned, setting down a finished pokeball and taking out another apricorn. "I didn't catch her. She's.. kinda my blood gift. Only blood gift I have." I explained, "Guardian Pokegirl."

"The first time she helped me was when I was a kid and got lost. My monophobia kicked in, I had a panic attack and blacked out. When I woke up, I was back with my parents. For awhile I just thought that they'd found me, but they had called me such a brave kid for finding my way back home. She saved me, and somehow, I knew it. I had dreams about a Yggdra flying down and carrying me home, but my parents told me it was just a dream. The first time I actually saw her was years later. I got lost again, but this time I was found by a feral Blade Bunny. She appeared and scared the feral off." I said.

"Woah. So at any point in time you could have just called down a grass dragon drone strike?" Riley questioned, "That Moan I haven't gotten on your bad side."

I shook my head, "I can call her at will, but she doesn't always appear. Only if something dangerous is really happening. She'll appear on her own eventually if I'm in a dangerous situation, but not until the danger is specifically aimed at me. I've taken to calling her Erza."

I looked around the group. Riley and Huey seemed surprised by this, but I think they were mostly just glad I'd had something that had saved us from being murdered. My 'girls looked a tad upset, probably because I'd had a 'girl that they hadn't known about, one that was objectively stronger than any of the others. Sasha had a similar look on her, looking equally, if not more, upset about the situation.

"You had this pokegirl, Erza, your whole life?" Sasha asked. I nodded, "Yeah, pretty much." I said. "Why didn't you ever tell me? We told each other everything back then right? How come I never knew about this? It's kind of a big thing to keep from someone."

I took a deep-breath, not wanting to get angry about this. It had taken me awhile to get over it the first time around, I didn't want to end up back there. "I did tell you." I told her. "What? What are you-" I cut Sasha off, "I told you. We were ten. I told you point blank about the dragon pokegirl that saved me. You laughed, you didn't believe me, just like my parents. I tried more than once, but you just never believed me, so I just stopped trying to tell you."

Sasha went quiet. If I had to guess, she was probably searching her memory for this, trying to make sure it wasn't true. Her eyes widened when she finally did remember. Us at ten years old, walking down the sidewalk, me telling her the story about the grass dragon from my dream, me insisting that it was real, her laughing it off, telling me that we were too old now to be believing in stuff like that.

"Oh no.." Sasha said to herself. I could tell she about to start trying to apologize, but I stopped her, "We were ten, I probably wouldn't have believed it either. I'm not upset. I was back then, but like I said, we were ten. It's okay, really."

Erza had been circling the area, making sure there were no other threats in the area. She loomed overhead when the OfficerJennys finally arrived, only lowering to meet me when she had determined that they meant me no harm. "I'll be leaving soon Master." Erza said, though her long tail was wrapping around me territorially. I could see that my 'girls, Lizzy in particular, were upset about this, but I couldn't exactly just tell her to go away now, she'd saved all our lives.

"Would you like to tame before you go?" I asked. Erza nodded, giving me a smile. "I'll be back in a few minutes." I told them, heading off with Erza.

"Can you believe this?" Lizzy questioned. "All this time. So much for being his first pokegirl."

"Didn't you,you know, kinda hate being Master's first 'girl?" Bet pointed out, earning an annoyed look from Lizzy, "That was back then, things are different now. Or I thought they were. Turns out he never really needed me, he could have gone out on his adventure without giving me a second glance!"

"Oh you know that isn't true." Cary said. "Guardian Pokegirls only show up when their Master is in serious danger. He always needed you. Even if he didn't, he still chose you. You're his alpha, not that Yggdra. She's basically combat gear."

Lizzy sighed, "I guess so..but it wouldn't have killed him to tell us about her." "Maybe..he just didn't want us to get jealous and upset," Nina suggested, "Like you are right now."

Lizzy blushed lightly, realizing that she might have been right. "Okay, good point. I mean it isn't like he went out and caught her, she just kind of appeared for him. I'm sorry, here I am whining about Mark's summon 'girl and you've just been in a cage for a hours."

"It's okay." Nina says, "It wasn't really terrible. I was scared, and they were awfully mean to me and the others, but they never had a chance to actually hurt any of us." "Well, you don't need to be scared now dear," Stella said, rubbing Nina's shoulder, "Want me to help you relax~?"

"N-no thank you, I'm okay, really." Nina insisted, blushing. Stella stepped closer to the Vesta, "You sure~?" "Down girl, she isn't interested." Bet said, Stella rolling her eyes, "I was just offering."

"You can't go two hours without a fuck cam you?" Cary questioned. "Hey, it's not my fault, I'm a Love Bug. It's kind of what I was born for." "Can I help?" Zoe offered Stella, the bug 'girl grinning, "Good to hear someone hear wants to help me pass the time~"

Stella and Zoe left the area, Lizzy just shaking her head in annoyance. "If they attract a Zubutt swarm, I'm not helping them."