Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 79: Hero Killer Arc, part. 2; The Public Perception. Act 2
The following day, Gar has whisked away again in the limo to another huge building in the city, this time in his Dark Type outfit. The main HQ for the merchandising branch of hero consumers. Through the sliding doors and up the elevator he went to a large room with an equally large table full of man-suited men. Fr their he sat down and listened to Photo Finished as she did the majority of the talking in their negotiations. The talks went on for far longer than Gar had anticipated, and very quickly he grew bored. And even quicker he dozed off.
Photo eventually caught wind of this, and as one of her associates is talking to the seller, she elbows him and hisses, "Garfield."
"Huh! I'm awake!", Gar instantly shoots up.
"Can you please pretend to take this a bit more seriously?", Photo half scolded him in a whisper.
Gar rubs his face and apologetically says, "I'm sorry it's just so….boring! Besides, you're doing all the talking. I'm just here for…..reasons….I guess?"
Photo sighs at his response and tells him, "It still concerns you as much as me. It's your merch deal, you have to be satisfied with the terms or they'll rob you!"
"Sorta like what you're doing with me?", Gar vexes her with a snicker.
Photos face half falls into a neutral expression along with her sunglasses. She then puts on the angriest expression that she's made and said in a hiss, "Now you listen here you little-."
Though before she could continue with that thought, the door of the meeting room was kicked open and several armed men in ski masks swarmed in and surrounded them!
"Alright, nobody move! This is a stickup!", One of the men shouted as the firearms were all pointed at them.
All people present immediately shot their hands skyward! All except Gar who only had them half raised, with an unamused expression.
He rolls his eyes and says, "A stickup? What is this, some cheesy noir movie?"
The man who shouted beforehand, probably the leader, walked up to him while pointing the gun at his head and saying, "Oh a funny guy, eh? Well funny guy, let's see if you're still cracking wise quips after a few holes in your head are made!"
Gar casually moves the barrel away from himself and shoots back, "Then you have one less person to put on ransom and one more reason for the police to put a bullet in your head."
The leader looks annoying but also conflicted by his logic. He grunts and irritates growls and barks, "Tie them up."
Within several minutes, the other thugs had brought rope and tied all the hostages to one another to their chairs or just on the ground.
Gar happened to be one of the last ones, and as His bonds were being secured, he vexed the thug, "Wow. This is the worst way to tie someone down possible. And these knots you made, so weak! I mean, did you knot go through Machop scouts when you were a child?"
"Shut up!", The man shouted at him.
Gar rolls his eyes once again and tells him, "Oh geez take a chill pill guy. What's your deal anyway? Girlfriend in this building break up with you? Sour deal? Bought out by them?"
Then the leader takes the front stage again and tells him smugly, "This is the biggest merchandise company in all of Japan. If we aren't given 10 million in one hour, then things get worse!"
Gar sticks his tongue out and blows a raspberry, before demoralizingly saying back, "Oh wow, I'm pissing my pants as we speak. Oh please don't do that. I want to live. Oh have a heart you thug. Boo-hoo.", He says every word dripping with sarcasm.
"Gar!", Photo yells at him in stress and fear.
"You got quite a mouth on you, Pokemon trainer.", The leader says to him while tapping the side of his head with his gun.
Gar gave him an impressed expression and said, "Ah, so you know me."
"Yeah, I do.", the leader confirmed with a wry smile.
Gar returned the smile as he asked him, "So you know that you guys are screwed right now, right?"
The leader laughs at his statement and asks back, "And how's that?"
Gar snorts at his retort and tells him, "Cause while I had you guys demoralized and distracted, I had my partner Mimikyu activate the PokeBalls on my belt."
The leader was confused by this until he saw six beams of light flash out from his midsection and manifest into several radically different Pokemon! A creature that looked like a fog cloud with a second head, a giant moth, a giant purple bat with four wings, a huge brown rat with equally large teeth, a giant cobra, and a slug monster. The leader immediately jumped away from the creatures, into the safety of his other men and all of them stood stunned in fear with their weapons drawn at them! At this point, Mimikyu popped up on Gar's shoulder and used its sharp claws to slice his bonds.
Gar shot up to his feet and commanded, "Wheezing, Smog! Venomoth, Stun Spore! Crobat, Confused Ray! Raticate, Hyper Fang! Arbok, Constrict! Muk, Gunk Shot!"
Wheezing released a thick cloud of purple smoke from its mouth, covering the armed men and making them cough. Venomoth released a cloud of spores from the beating of its wings, hitting several of the men and causing them to fall to the ground unmoving. Crobat emanated three orbs of light from his eyes and made one of the remaining men too dizzy to handle his weapon or stand up. Raticate dashed forward and tackled down one of the last three remaining men, crushing his arm in his teeth. Arbok pounced on the leader and wrapped him tightly in its coils. Finally, Muk took down the last man by expelling a glob of thick black mucus, making him fall to the ground with a purple tinge to his face as bubbles floated from his body.
Later Outside The Room
"What do you hear?", Death Arms asked Jiro as she listened into the room where the hostages were being kept, while a few of his sidekicks were standing behind him.
She took a minute to not replay and closely listened in to make sure she got everything, to which she finally said, "There are about 17 individuals. 5 are on the ground. 3 are seated. The rest are standing. There's some foot traffic so they're moving."
"Excellent work, now the next step-.", Death Arms began to say until Jiro cut him off.
"Wait, I hear something else.", she told him while listening in again, the hero and sidekicks all growing quiet once again, "Sounds like….animals? The patter of paws, the beating of wings, a….slothing sound, and something being tightened.", she listened in confusion.
"Strange.", Death Arms admitted while putting a hand to his chin. After thinking it over for a moment, he placed his fist into his hand and told all of them, "Okay, here's the drill. When we bust the doors in, we'll take care of the villains. You take care of the hostages and get them outside."
"Understood.", they all repeated in low tones.
Jiro moved out of the way as Death Arms got into position. He brought his fist back and broke down the locked door in one hit! He and his sidekicks all rushed in while he shouted, "Freeze your all…..under…arrest."
Jiro was about to rush in behind them to grab the hostages and run, but when she heard the pro suddenly trail off and stop as quickly as he rushed in, she peeked out from behind the flabbergasted men and saw something that also shocked her! In the room were a bunch of people being held prisoner by armed men, but instead, all the armed men were being held by Pokemon!
A Wheezing was aimlessly floating around the room, Crobat while handing off the ceiling and snoozing away, Muk was sitting happily in the pot of an uprooted fake plant, Arbok was still holding the thug leader, Raticate was trying to get up to one of the other thugs who was screaming in fright while keeping just out of reach on the table, Mimikyu was doing a little dance on the opposite end of the table for the hostages to enjoy, and Venomoth was relaxing on the head of a very familiar person.
Gar, who was playing some game on Rotom, looked up from his relaxed position in a swivel chair and said with a chipper tone, "Oh hey guys. I was just about to call you. We've got things all tied up for you."
"Gar!?", Jiro exclaimed in shock.
Gar saw the punk girl and happily greeted her, "Oh, hey Kyoka. Working with big meaty claws I see."
"How in the….why in the…?", she asked, confused as she saw the scene before her.
One of the thugs was on the ground, tossing and turning like they were in pain, covered in a black substance. The one trying to avoid Raticade had a huge bite mark on his arm. While the rest of them, still paralyzed, were being arranged into different funny positions by the people and Photo Finish.
Gar rolls his eyes in amusement at her reaction and tells her, "Come oooooon, Kyoka. It's me. Of course, it wouldn't go any other way."
"Sir, how do we approach this?", one of the sidekicks asks.
Though all he could do was stand there in awe, until one of the people met shouted at them, "How about by getting these thugs out of here!"
"Help me.", the leader croaked out as Arbok pulled tighter.