Chapter 38
If Cynthia vs Giovanni was supposed to be the battle of the century, a lot of fans would have been left disappointed up to this point, Delia thought. So far she had already beaten 2 of Giovanni's Pokemon and she was just finishing off a third, a Persian who looked and acted more like just a simple sex slave for Giovanni than an actually worthwhile opponent. Come on! She thought. He had to have better Pokemon than this! In fact she knew for a fact he had better Pokemon but so far had yet to use any of them. The best so far was this Persian, and she was currently cowering in fear as far away from her as she could, looking like she might faint just out of terror. How she had even managed to evolve was beyond her.
"Going easy on me Giovanni?" She goaded him, "I'd say I appreciate it, but I'm getting kind of bored."
"I enjoy watching you beat up my pathetic slaves," He countered back with a sly smile, "so very satisfying watching a woman of your caliber do so."
"Am I supposed to take that as a compliment?" She asked him before turning her attention over to the Persian woman who interestingly enough was wearing a harem girl outfit, just in case she was going to try and counterattack. No such luck though, she'd already curled up into a ball for protection.
"You'd be the crown jewel for any man's harem," Giovanni admitted, "although of course you'd be too fierce to ever truly be broken especially since Cynthia appears to be trying to get her claws into you."
"Could you just get this over with Giovanni, I grow weary as well," Cynthia declared with a yawn, "and Delia finish off his Persian."
She did so, really it didn't take much, just a final Dragon Claw to take her out, having already Dragon Danced her way into heavily boosted Attack and Speed stats. Right now she felt like a legendary in how boosted she was.
Giovanni just smiled, looking like he had been toying with them this entire time before announcing, "As you wish. If you really believe you have what it takes to defeat one such as me, I shall at long last show you one more than your match!"
Immediately the gym surroundings disappeared, with her instead surrounded by this purple haze or fog, although she could still see clearly Giovanni and Cynthia. Then directly in front of her glowed a pair of huge glowing yellow eyes.
"Who dares disturb my slumber?" The obviously female sounding voice asked in annoyance.
"I, your master Giovanni did," Giovanni declared smugly, "I wish for you to finish off this Pokemon for me."
The eyes looked over at her before declaring rather tiredly, "very well, I could use a little bit of entertainment."
It began to be more and more apparent just what she was really up against as more of her body was made visible, starting with her giant head and then the rest of her body. Whatever she was, she was absolutely massive, easily over 20 feet tall and rivaling the size of Lugia, with huge bat like wings, no less than 6 legs, and a torso that could crush her simply by sitting on her.
"Giratina," Cynthia observed, answering the question as to who she was, "so you finally decide to reveal yourself.
"Mewtwo," Giratina replied back with a curt nod.
Cynthia's lips turned into a slight frown before declaring, "I don't go by that name."
Giratina just shrugged and said, "Doesn't matter what name you go by, it doesn't change who and what you are."
"Well spoken," Giovanni agreed, "Cynthia maybe truly be powerful yes, and admittedly beyond my skill to defeat without aid, but I can still enjoy beating her newest love interest, which is a shame too, I rather fancied her."
Delia was quite taken aback before questioning, "Love interest?"
Giovanni merely raised an eyebrow and countered, "Cynthia tends to fall for any beautiful female Pokemon she ends up taking under her wing, and I'd hardly say she views you any differently."
Before she could reply to that, Giratina decided to just go for it with an attack which she only just barely dodged only to be nearly hit again by a second one right after it. Even with a Dragon Dance enhanced speed Giratina was still clearly very fast herself and when she tried counterattacking, Giratina merely disappeared only to reappear later in a different location with another attack. It was really hard to follow or just where to attack. A novice Pokemon or trainer might have given up or gotten themselves confused, but fortunately her and Cynthia were the exact opposite of such a combination.
"Hold in there Delia," Cynthia encouraged her, "Take note of her movements."
It was to Cynthia's credit as a great trainer that she had noticed it, taking note of the almost imperceptible pattern of Giratina's movements. So next she would reappear…
There!
A nice Sacred Fire nailed Giratina in the chest, which she just scratched at as if it was a minor irritation to her.
"Is that all you've got puny mortal?" She chided her, "I get more resistance from my home world…and I'm the only occupant!"
"Sorry to disappoint you," Delia answered, once again managing to hit her.
"Well you are brave, I'll give you that," Giratina replied continuing to taunt her, "but also foolish."
On the plus side, Delia observed, she was actually holding up rather well so far, with Cynthia's help having learned how to hit her. The problem was she was likely to get hit herself long before she could manage to take her opponent out.
"Any ideas?" She asked Cynthia right after having to dodge yet another attack.
"Yes, but you aren't going to like it," Cynthia answered, "You're overmatched. Let me bring out Palkia."
She had of course been hoping to do this all on her own, but she did have to agree with Cynthia. Before the switch could be made however Giratina made a correction change in her teleportation movements. Right on top of her!
"Boo!" Giratina said loudly as she crashed down on top of her. The next thing she knew and she was being sat on right underneath Giratina's very large lower torso. Not exactly a nice place to be. More importantly Cynthia couldn't withdraw her either under such a position especially since two of Giratina's legs also wrapped around her to keep her from moving.
"So the game ends," Giratina observed arrogantly, "if it makes you feel any better you did well, that is for what you have to work with. Now then let's see what interesting stuff you've got going on inside your mind."
She tried to resist, but Giratina got inside anyway as memories came back to her, being absorbed by Giratina. Yet then almost as soon as it started, her mind was once again hers. Had Giratina already finished?
However she soon got her answer as she looked over at Cynthia, or rather what Cynthia was now. She now was totally in her Mewtwo form, looking absolutely furious as she had her hand raised and directed towards Giratina. Giratina however now seemed to take the situation much more seriously as Cynthia started attacking back as attack after attack went flying into Giratina. Giratina was forced to teleport away, leaving her now free to more clearly see the battle unfold.
Wherever Giratina went, Cynthia's attack was already there, each one seemingly stronger and more powerful than the last. Honestly she had never seen such a display in real life, awe and shock on her face.
Giratina tried attacking back, still very formidable, but Cynthia was simply in another league. Even so, Giratina tried to laugh and say, "I know the truth now Cynthia, you're already too late. I know about the baby!"
The baby? Delia wondered.
"I will never be alone again," Giratina insisted with a very pleased smile, "with just me you are indeed superior but-"
What she was saying was cut off by getting hit by Cynthia's next attack.
"Fight back!" Giovanni insisted to Giratina, "You can take her, my slave."
"I don't answer to you," Giratina declared dismissively, "you're nothing but a pathetic mortal and now I realize I don't even need you anymore now that I know what you've been trying to keep from me."
At that, Giratina directed her next attack at Giovanni himself. Had Giovanni been an instant slower he would have surely been killed, but as it was he managed to teleport himself out just in time. Giratina herself, looking already exhausted from the attacks she had already endured decided to flee as well, teleporting away as the purple mist disappeared and Delia found herself now back inside Cynthia's secret hideout inside Cerulean Cave.
She was about to become a bit more relieved when she saw Cynthia, who looked furious that her quarry had escaped. It was likely Giratina had gone back to her own world, a place even Cynthia dared not follow. Then Cynthia's gaze turned on her, looking still angry like she was going to attack her next.
"Cynthia, it's me," Delia declared, worried in her angered state she might not recognize friend from foe.
Cynthia seemed to struggle within herself for a little, but finally managed to calm down, also reverting into her human form at the same time, yet now looking sad and dejected.
"Are you all right?" Cynthia asked in concern.
"Yes, thanks to you," Delia replied as she dusted herself off and got up.
Cynthia however scoffed and said, "More like I put you unnecessarily in great danger. I lost control again."
"You also saved me from Giratina," Delia countered back.
"Not fast enough," Cynthia said with a shake of her head, "I should have known she would try something like that and now that she knows the truth…it will make things even more dangerous. Also knowing her, she won't reappear again until she is sure to succeed."
"What do you mean by the truth?" Delia inquired curiously.
"Lugia's baby," Cynthia answered, "what she got from your mind was that Lugia is pregnant and that Ash is the father."
Delia digested that information, thinking it over before observing, "Is she now is hoping to be able to have a child of her own?"
"Indeed," Cynthia confirmed, "as you were already warned, many legendaries would love to have children and Giratina is no exception. Millenia ago she was banished by Arceus to her own world with her as the sole occupant as punishment for trying to reshape the world into a place that would have become uninhabitable. As result, she has grown very lonely and bitter towards everyone. While she may have hoped to be able to gain greater power and get back at Arceus for punishing her, she now sees a different potential outcome: to instead start to populate her own world with her own child, no longer having to be lonely and be able to shape and teach them the way she views things."
"I see," Delia observed, now greatly worried, "so I'm assuming her next move then will be to try and capture Ash and force him into helping her become pregnant?"
"Correct," Cynthia confessed worriedly, "however like I said, she won't do it until she is sure to succeed. Ash has certain protections around him that would definitely deter her, but not for long."
As Delia stood there thinking all that over, an odd thought popped into her head.
"Is there anything else we can do?" Delia inquired.
"I suppose I could spend some more time around you and Ash," Cynthia suggested, "that is if you haven't already gotten sick of me?"
"Oh no, I've really enjoyed our time spent together recently," Delia answered easily, "and thank you for teaching me how to Dragon Dance."
"I never really finished teaching you," Cynthia admitted, "your form for example during the battle was off."
"Could you show me what I did wrong?" Delia asked.
"Sure," Cynthia agreed as she took her hand before putting the other around her waist, Delia complied with where her hands were supposed to go while Cynthia led. It may seem odd as an attack, but it definitely seemed to work, although it was more difficult remembering how to do it just by yourself.
As the two of them did so however, they moved slowly, both tired from the still recent battle.
"You should probably know that my feelings for you aren't exactly platonic," Cynthia admitted, "especially what with Giovanni bringing it up."
"I know," Delia was forced to admit, "I figured it out eventually, but it's really okay. I don't mind."
"Perhaps not, but I figured I'd at least admit it," Cynthia said, "Giovanni was right about me. I do tend to fall for any female Pokemon that I end up trying to help. Even so I've never met a woman like you."
"Thanks," Delia replied as Cynthia spun her around.
"I'll still resist any such feelings though," Cynthia promised, "I know you still are in love with Ash."
"Yes," Delia told her, "however I've come to terms with the fact that he and I will never be."
It was a tough admission for her, but still very important she felt.
"I'm sorry, I really think you deserve him if it is any consolation," Cynthia insisted.
Cynthia just stared at her for a second until…she leaned in and kissed her.
If she would have thought that being kissed by another woman was weird, it really didn't. It wasn't fantastic or anything like that, but it wasn't bad either.
"I'm sorry," Cynthia apologized, "I lost control again."
"It's alright, I didn't mind," Delia answered.
"Can I kiss you again then?" Cynthia bravely asked. One did not become champion by being scared.
She really wasn't sure what to say to that. Sure it wasn't bad, but she'd never been really attracted to another woman. Even so, she couldn't help but think it had been so long anyway since she had really been able to respond in such a way. Her "date" with Giovanni, alarming though it was afterwards had still awakened something in her that was hard to repress. Whoever it was with, she needed to feel…that feeling.
"Yes," She found herself suddenly saying.
Cynthia smiled gratefully and kissed her again, this one for longer, allowing her time to get her lips moving and try kissing her back. She was pretty sure she was butchering it and doing a terrible job, but it still felt good, not earth-shattering but good and it was certainly good enough to continue as they started to really make out.
When Cynthia grabbed her butt though, she very nearly pulled away…but didn't. The key word was didn't, she let it happen and she let what happened next happen as well when she decided to reciprocate by doing the same to Cynthia. Wow, she thought, Cynthia's butt was rather impressive. It was actually extremely well formed and yet squeezable and easily the most prominent thing about her except for possibly her tail when she was in her Mewtwo form. Speaking of which…
She could feel Cynthia's tail beginning to grow and poke back out of the top of her pants.
"I'm sorry," She apologized, "I'm not able to control myself when I'm this turned on."
Again, she accepted the apology and said, "It's alright" before going back to kissing her.
She kept saying it was alright, but it took her a second for her to decide it actually was alright. She was actually enjoying this and she didn't want it to stop.
However Cynthia becoming Mewtwo involved a totally new situation as she felt the power begin to grow within her current make-out partner. She suddenly felt dangerous to even be around and yet she couldn't help but feed off of and enjoy that power, it was almost intoxicating how it washed over her as they kissed. She wanted more of it even if it was dangerous, even if there were risks involved and she really didn't want to turn it down. She could say she didn't, say she didn't want this, say she was hesitant and had no idea how to feel but the reality was all that pent up sexual tension, all that desire she had had for so long simply needed this glorious outlet. Sure it was unexpected, sure it was sudden, and sure it was with another woman, but none of those factors stopped her. Finally she just let it take over and stopped thinking or caring what she did with Cynthia for the next long while.
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The problem with finding a long lost mother by searching amongst ruins was it tended to result in a lot of dead ends, sometimes literally as was the case when she came across a perfect Old Amber Fossil. Daisy, who had been helping them out was pretty grateful for that, but otherwise having visited two different ruin sites over the last couple of days had proved fruitless. Even so, she was not ready to give up just yet, there was still plenty of others they could visit.
"There is the one in Johto we could try," Venus suggested, who was their other traveling companion.
"No it would take too long to get there, I think we should really be getting back to Ash first," Jessie suggested, "we can resume our search after the Pokemon League."
"I'm sure Ash would understand if you decided to go," Venus suggested.
"I'm not doing the same thing my mother did," Jessie said vehemently, "abandoning my family so I can go chasing off after some unlikely event ever to happen."
Frankly, while she wanted to find her mother, she had promised herself she wouldn't be like her in that regard.
Venus however took it a different way and asked, "Do you really consider us family?"
"Of course I do," Jessie said before being unable to resist joking a bit, "You're the crazy aunt of course."
"Naturally," Venus agreed with a smile, "so what is Ash then?"
"My husband and the father of my children," Jessie answered.
"You really shouldn't joke about that," Venus chided her.
"Actually I was being totally serious," Jessie said, "you thought I didn't want to settle down and start a family of my own with a bunch of Dragon babies that look half like Ash?"
"You just seem too restless for that to me," Venus replied.
"Do you think you'll ever be able to give up your research for such a life?" Jessie countered back.
It was a valid question and one Venus thought a lot about before saying, "Somehow even though I think we'll both have children, it still will never be a dull moment with us."
"It had better not," Jessie agreed as she unfurled her tail, "I really would get too restless."
At that moment, they heard a yell from Daisy.
"I think I found something," She called them over, currently crouching in the dirt.
When the two of them got over there, she pointed at the ground underneath her.
"Another fossil?" Jessie asked, not really expecting her to have found a "Jessie's mom was here and went that way" sign.
"No," Daisy said with a bright smile, "I found something much, much bigger than that."
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What Daisy found did indeed prove to be much, much bigger than that as the 3 of them walked down the newly discovered underground tunnel.
Or rather she slithered, being unable to walk and the tunnel was simply just big enough for them as it was. If she hadn't simply been just very long instead of tall, she'd never have managed it.
"The walls appear to be made of a super hard alloy, nearly unbreakable," Venus observed curiously, "I wonder why whoever created the tunnel would use that sort of material."
It was curious, but Jessie was more concerned about just what was at the end of this tunnel. Right now her fire hair was illuminating what was in front of them only so far. Unfortunately she soon got her wish a bit unexpectedly as…the next thing she knew, she was stepping right through a portal or barrier of some sort and she was then surrounded by lush jungle. As she looked back, she could see no cave or tunnel behind her, nor as she tried to go back, could she go back, merely walking through jungle.
"Extraordinary," Venus stated, amazed at what had just happened.
"I guess we're stuck here," Daisy observed, "wherever here is."
The jungle surrounding them certainly did not match any location anywhere near Viridian where they had been. Indeed it didn't seem to match anywhere she had ever visited.
"Oh look," Venus noticed excitedly as she pointed at a flower, "a regulus mimbula! Why this species of flower has been extinct for thousands of years."
She was about to ask Venus just how she knew what the flower even looked like if it had been extinct for so long, perhaps she had seen a cave drawing or something of it, but then a loud sound caused her to suddenly have bigger concerns. Whatever it was, it was big, very big.
"What was that?" Daisy asked worriedly.
"I don't know, but let's stick together and be cautious until we find out," Jessie recommended, staying on her guard. Being the biggest and strongest, she felt a natural need to want to protect the two of them. Daisy of course had her own Pokemon, but most of them were still very weak having just gotten them after Ash had transformed them.
Besides, if it was yet another giant Pokemon as she suspected, she had the greatest chance of being able to battle them…which wasn't a particularly encouraging thought.
Venus led the way in trying to find out just where they were and how to get back to where they came from, but it was obvious she was also very excited about the many discoveries she was making.
"It's like we've somehow gone back in time," She observed, "there are all sorts of believed to be extinct species, like this is some sort of primordial world."
"Primordial?" Jessie asked, not knowing what the word meant.
"Ancient," Venus corrected for her, simplifying it.
As they continued on, albeit slowly as Venus and Daisy kept trying to study and take samples…they eventually heard the sounds of crying. She felt like she should still be wary, but they still needed to find and talk to someone eventually and someone crying probably wasn't all that menacing.
The 3 of them approached where the sound was coming from and finally emerged into a clearing where she spotted an Abra. At first she thought it was an adult, it was surely big enough to be an adult, more like Daisy's size at about 5'4, but then she looked up, and she couldn't help gasping in shock. Appearance wise she looked no older than 3 or 4.
"Hi, what's your name?" Venus asked sweetly of the girl.
The girl sniffled a little before replying, "Lila, but have you seen my mommy?"
Venus smiled, trying to help reassure the girl and said, "no, but we can help you look for her if you want."
It was clear Venus was managing to ignore her concern over finding Lila to be so big for her age over her desire to help a child. She would make a good mother Jessie thought.
As for herself well…she wanted children, but she wasn't sure she would be a good mom, especially considering just how she herself had been raised, by both an absentee mother and then a poor, unloving foster home.
However if they were wondering just how they would be able to find Lila's mom it really didn't take long and as the ground began to shake and quake she started to think it might not be such good thing that they had.
An absolutely gigantic Alakazam walked over to them, easily 50 feet in height.
"Lila!" The Alakazam called worriedly.
"I'm here mommy," Lila said as she rushed over to her. Her mom then immediately took her directly into her arms, grateful to have her back.
A moment later however she looked over at them suspiciously, looking like she might attack them perhaps worried they had been the ones to take her daughter.
"We found your daughter and we were bringing her back to you," Venus said meekly, a bit humbled by the Alakazam's sheer size.
"Newcomers," She observed as she let out a loud, long whistle that sounded loud enough to burst their eardrums, "follow me."
That really was that. The Alakazam really didn't seem all that keen to talk much, not even so much as a thank you for saving her daughter, but at least she hadn't attacked them yet even though she kept glancing back at them as if tempted to do just that.
Even so they followed her until they reached a settlement. She called it that because it was definitely big enough to be a major city for average sized people, but the dwellings and buildings were so few in number it could only be considered a village.
Everyone there were Pokemon and every single one of them were gigantic, ranging in size in the adults from 25 feet to 50 feet like the Alakazam.
Then she saw the biggest of them all. A Dragonite easily over 100 feet in height, towering over everything and everybody else came over, practically blotting out the sky behind her.
At first she was shocked and a bit scared and then she took a closer look at them. Those eyes, that face…she knew who this was.
"Mom?" Jessie asked in complete surprise.
The giant Dragonite looked down at her, studying her for a moment before asking incredulously, "Jessie?"
After the two of them looked at each for a long moment, hardly daring to believe such a reunion could be real…they embraced.
She had to fly up in order to hug and grasp her mom's neck like she did when she was little…which funnily enough she was still little in comparison to her mom as her mom hugged her back with her arms.
Despite how she thought she would react if such a moment were to occur, perhaps immediately blaming her mom for abandoning her or start throwing things or something, right now she was just grateful to have her mom back.
Her mom started to sob as tears came down her cheeks.
"I thought…I thought I would never see you again," Her mom said, emotion overwhelming her.
"Me too," Jessie agreed. It wasn't for another few minutes that they finally pulled away from the embrace.
"How did you get here?" Her mom then asked.
"We found a secret tunnel underneath some ruins near Viridian," Jessie explained, "we were looking for you."
Her mom nodded and said, "I found the same ruins, that's how I ended up here."
Jessie then looked around and asked, "where is here?"
"Pokemopolis," Her mom replied, her tone now sounding more worried, "I'm really glad I have you back but…Jessie you really shouldn't be here."
"What's wrong?" Jessie inquired.
"This place, it's not safe," Her mom explained, "it turns everyone into giant Pokemon."
"I'm already big to begin with," Jessie said, "it's kind of a long story."
She however shook her head and started to tell her story.
"After I left you I went searching for Mew. I fully intended to only be gone a short while and then I would return for you. However when I found the secret tunnel underneath the ruins I ended up here and it wasn't long until I met the original inhabitants here, all giant Pokemon who all they wanted to do was battle, their desire so strong it was causing them to do damage to their food supply and essentially starving themselves. With their sheer size, of course they also needed a lot of food which of course made things more difficult to begin with. There might have been many, many more occupants here at one time, but now they are down to just over a dozen. Unfortunately whatever sort of power that causes them to grow big also affects anyone who comes here. It wasn't long before I started to change, first of all into a Pokemon and then to grow bigger and bigger. The two travel companions that I had with me soon started to develop health problems due to their internal organs not being able to keep up with the growth which ultimately killed them. We tried searching for a way out, but the passageway back out only reappears at certain times and by then we were simply too big to be able to squeeze inside."
Jessie took it all in. It matched a great deal what she had learned about giant Pokemon quite well even though there was still plenty left a mystery. There was however one answer she couldn't help but fixate on. Her mother had wanted to come back for her, but had been unable to. She hadn't really abandoned her.
That thought caused her to have to reevaluate a whole lot.
"When will this passageway reappear?" Venus inquired, speaking down from below.
"In about a month," Her mom answered.
Dread washed over her. Growth she had found also caused leveling. She was already at level 50. In a month's time she would likely already have hit level 55 and evolved into a Dragonite like her mom. She would also then be far too big to fit inside the passageway. She would be stuck here forever.
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