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(The song "Do the evolution" by Pearl Jam begins to play)
Chesterization proudly presents.
A Pokémon fanfiction
Genesis
(Song ends)
Chapter 3: First day on the job
Catherine woke up in a dark place lit up by a red glow. There was the sound of humming engines in the background. Her head was still hot from the inside.
It took her quite some time to get over the pain and slowly opened her eyes. When Catherine half opened her eyes, she found out that her eyes floaters had become number and icons. She had not heard or seen of any of those icons, yet she somehow knew what they were and how to control them. She knew which one showed her heart rate; what kind of weapons she had at that moment; which one would help her connect to the digital fabricator.
She had a thought about the fabricator and it immediately let her access the inventory. She apparently still had her pistols: Lady Death and Anima in addition to a standard G687 shotgun. There were even explosives as well. She had never touched, or seen whatever those were, but she knew that they were going to bring some hurt. All these information were alien yet familiar to her. She thought about seeing clearer and that somehow disabled all the display.
With her eyes freed, she had a look around. Zoomed her vision some more, Catherine saw Axel standing near a door with the word "Air lock" lit up in bright red lights. Catherine recalled Axel mentioned about a hangar bay, so she assumed that she had been taken to a plane and was on her way for her first mission.
Then it hit her, Axel is not just a Pokémon who take her through the base. He is going to be her teammate. Suddenly that dumb smile meant something after all. Axel was doing his thing, juggling his tube device while foot was still tapping against the floor. It did not make any noise still. This time, a blue crystal visor covered his right eye. His black jacket zipped up and metal plates were added along the sides of his body. Beside him laid a black sniper rifle with an extra-long barrel and a rather large scoop. The handle seemed to be modified to fit his hands.
Catherine shifted her head to the left and saw an enormous eight feet tall Emboar sitting on a row of seats in a relaxing manner. His arms rested on the remaining pieces of two crushed dividers. The mega fire pig was clad from head to toe with battle armor, which had similar design as the ones worn by the Bisharp grunts. However while their armors were just mere add-on, his was a full set. The chest plate of course had the Foundation logo inside a purple hexagon. The area around the logo was covered in claw marks, bullet holes along and decorative red stripes. Below the chest plate lied grenades and ammunition holders. The armor had several hydraulic joints in the areas between his waist and legs, around his ankles and some parts of his arms. His legs looked much larger thanks to the added grieves that came along with the suit. Strangely enough, they made his body proportion looked much more balanced than his normal state did. His left hand was left exposed and it was holding an aluminum barrel that said Genja's beer. The other hand held into a fist and was protected with armor plating. The armor plates around his arms painted with bright red and orange flame patterns. All except for his right bicep, which got a symbol of a Braviary in a dark blue circle filled with white stars.
His head was unprotected. The flaming beard under his chin was much longer compare to his peers and the thing somehow looked alive. It was always crawling toward his head for some reasons. He chugged the remaining beer inside the barrel then crushed the aluminum container flat with his head, melted it a bit and tossed it on another seat. He turned his head to the right and met Catherine's half opened ruby eyes.
"Hey, look who finally woke up." The Emboar said.
Catherine just rubbed her hand around her forehead and said. "Ugh, what the fuck happened? I don't feel so good."
"Yeah, just take it easy. Happened to me once and several other times. Don't sweat it, it will be over soon. But here, a little something to wake you up."
Axel jerked his head to face the Emboar: "I don't think beer is going to cut it."
The Emboar just swiped his hand and said, "Dude, it's just energy drink. Stop associate me with some kind of alcoholic jerk bag. Hey, do you want it, my little friend? A little-wake-me-up." He invited her with up most honesty while showing a small smile, exposing one of his fangs.
"It is pick-me-up Rick. And it's wrong in whatever way you put it."
"Dude, just cut me some slacks, okay? Do ya want some energy drink? They are semi healthy and delicious."
Catherine just nodded. "Little". Usually when someone addressed her that way, she would introduce that Pokémon to her fist. She did not know what made her do so. Either her pride tells her that she was being looked down upon or being reminded that she could not ever grow to her fullest potentials. She did not know what that was, but she could not feel it at that moment. Her head was too heavy and her body was so light that she could not event walk let alone got up and threw a punch.
The Embour activated a device mounted on his belt. It projected a wide beam that made the air around the Emboar's left side glowed in blue. The image of a small aluminum can appeared. The way it became solid was the perfect recreation of how Anna's contract came to be. The fire pig then picked the can from thin air with his two left claws. "See?" The Emboar said and waved the can at Axel, who then just looked at the other way.
With a flick of his wrist, the Emboar threw it toward Catherine. Catherine's pupils dilated as she had just realized what was going to happen. She immediately used her remaining strength to extend her hand in front of her face and caught the can. Her arm then went limp from the recoil but still held on to the can.
"Nice reflex." Was the Emboar's complement for Catherine's successful attempt of not getting a dent on her face. Catherine just did not care. She slowly raised the can to her face and pressed it against her forehead. The little bit of coolness on the can suddenly felt like a breeze from the heaven. Her head was cooling down and the headache was gradually getting weaker.
"No, that not how you—"
Catherine proceeded to open the can and take a sip. She grimaced at the taste but then went for another sip. The taste was disgusting yet refreshing at the same time. Before she even realized, half of the can was empty. She then shook her head violently. Whatever in that can was the wakeup call that she need. Her focus was restored somewhat. Not 100% yet, but it was close. Catherine, at that moment could feel every cell in her body fired up. She then went for another sip. This time, she could truly feel the taste. It was much bitterer then what she used to, but her willing to take whatever she could.
"Are you sure she is a Celestian? Don't want to step on somebody's toe but…"
Axel caught the tube device and said: "I guess it's safe to say: We welcome you to the modern world and. Welcome to the team, Catherine!"
"Oh yeah. That reminds me. You own me 10000 creds for that." The Emboar cut his sentences.
"Yes Rick. That was incredibly relevant. I'll keep that in mind. Okay, Catherine, this fellow here is Richard Douglas." Axel said while pointing at the Emboar with his index finger.
"Hey. What is up?" Rick said and saluted her with his right claws.
Axel continued the introduction. "He is our heavy hitter. Dangerous on and off the battlefield. Go anywhere near him and you will regret it. Unless getting burned and expose to explosive are your thing then you two are going to be best friends."
"Yup, couldn't say it better. Minus the exploding part though. Hey Doc, aren't you gonna say something to our little friend."
Catherine had regained that feeling. The feeling gave her the decision of making an impact on someone's face when that word is associated with her. She was about to give the Emboar the regular treatment, no matter what the size different was.
"You should stop calling her that way Rick. She has a very high option about herself, apparently. She is much older and stronger than you may think. I saw some personal issues down there too, so watch your steps."
Rick turned to Catherine, who was looking Axel's content expression with utter surprise. "What? Oh, crap. Well, I don't know. I'm sorry. Forgive me. My words are somewhat hit and miss, most of the time. Don't let any of my words get to you. I'm never look down on anyone, especially my teammates. You should loosen up a bit. Take another sip, you'll be fine butter cup.'
She waved a forgive gesture and followed Rick's request. The taste of the drink seem to have grown on her. She began to drinking it up, enjoying every bit. Upon finishing the can, Catherine balanced it on her left hand. Catherine turned to Rick. "Just remember. Call me that way and I shall prove otherwise." She engulfed it with her psychic energy and slowly crushed into a neatly metal cube no larger than a pebble. "Understood, Emboar?"
The Emboar did not flinch at the destruction of the can. He just laughed. "Ha, that's pretty cool. I like that. But sure, whatever you say my friend."
Axel made a fake cough in order to catch Catherine's attention. "And you already know my name. I'll in charge of scouting and infiltration. I do perform regular hits for the Foundation from time to time but I'm not too proud of that. On the battlefield, you and the enemy would not know I'm existed. And Doc, again, you have been awfully quiet, say something."
A loud "clank" emitted from the floor. Natural reflex turned her head toward the source, giving her the chance to face the forth Pokémon in the room. The divider still kept most of the Pokémon hidden from her. She can only saw what she thought was a leg made of metallic skeleton and color wires. The rotating joints on the knee and the two hydraulic pistons in where the thigh should be, helped the Pokémon stood up. The leg moved the Pokémon forward with a series of clink and clang. Catherine's eyes slowly looked upward and gave her the full view of the Pokémon. His entire lower body, from the waist down, was made from cybernetics. Above it was a white tee shirt, filled with upside down scribbles of math equations written in black marker. Outside the shirt was a torn and slightly burned white lab coat with the Foundation logo, similar to those of the Kadabra engineers. However, this time, the exposed left arm was just a shoulder made of gears and bolts attached to the Pokémon's body. Above the collar was a thin Alakazam face ravaged by time, stitches and a black bionic eye that dug its roots in the left side of the face. When Catherine looked at him, the eye lit up crimson red. She looked down, avoided making eye contact with him.
She then saw something was moving in the palm of his right arm. It was his remaining arm. However, this one was made completely out of cybernetic materials instead of aged and pale flesh like the other. On it was an abundant of gadgets crammed together. In a series of quick motion, he latched, twisted the arm, and attached it to his left shoulder. The finger danced after the connection was made. He then used his left arm to hold on to the rail above then stared down at Catherine with the mechanical eye. Curiosity get the better of her, she looked up. With a face looked like a dried out corpse and a body made of Arceus-know-what, Catherine didn't feel anything else but a sense of dread when she faced him again.
She had heard a story of a Pokémon who tried to make himself live forever by cutting away the rotten pieces of his flesh and blood and used metal and mercury to take their place. Thanks to the Alakazam in front of her, she should no longer have any trouble imagine that Pokémon anymore. He then began to speak in a low and damaged voice: "No need to be afraid. We are all monster here." The way the sound came from his rotten lips unsettled Catherine greatly. The word "ruthless" spoken in Anna's voice returned to her head and the word "monster" suddenly joined in as well. She could felt her muscles tensed up, heart beaten faster and faster.
"What the hell are you doing, man?" Rick asked the Alakazam in his docile tone. Somehow, this simple question turned into a thunder crack in Catherine head very quick. The crimson machine eyes turned into a light shade of blue, and the Alakazam's voice changed by 180 degrees.
"Hehehe, well, it is seem that my comedy banter had been ruined. I only wish to lighten up the mood, you see. I'm trying to act intimidating during my introduction and then added a punch line in the final part." He then turned to Rick. "Unfortunately, you have completely sabotaged it with your up most unnecessary question, Rick.' He retained that fast-paced speech and voice of a Kadabra engineer. However, his was a bit broken compare to them; as if he was speaking through an old, rusted megaphone.
Catherine was struck with relief when the Alakazam completed his sentences. It was one of those moments when you prepared to tackle head on what looked like a tsunami from afar, but in the end, it was just a gentle wave passing by. The sudden drop of tension made Catherine light headed and somewhat, disappointed.
"Yeah, you better prepare for weird ass crap like that in the future." The Emboar told Catherine before stepping out of his seats.
Presented Catherine with a PR grin, the Alakazam then continued: "I prefer the phrase "acquire taste in comedy", Rick. Anyhow, good afternoon, Catherine, I am Dyvilov Voynich. For easier references, call me Doc. Everyone does. Should be clear that I am an engineer not a medic. Pokémon tent to confuse that somehow. My job is relatively simple, controlling the battlefield with my robotics, repairing vehicles and hacking. Whenever you need help with machines, I shall be there. Any question?"
"Wait, you last name is Voynich?" Catherine said as she tried to catch up with his speech.
Noticed Catherine touch of confusion, he answered: "Strange question, maybe, ahhhhh. Affirmative. Glacian. Not pure blood, so please, do not apply stereotypes. Though I admit that I enjoy cold weather but everything else that made the Glacians famous or infamous, do not reflect on me. Do not ask me to drink alcohol. I am what Rick calls "dry as a bone". Have no idea why my marrows got anything to do with alcohol consumption. Not an Arcadian, so do not know. Appeared to be off topic, apology. Hum, still have that look.
Ohhh, you and Axel had met before, yes. Yes. If Axel's last name is your concern then I will get rid of it immediately before I'm going in too deep. I adopted him. Simple as that. Never get married before. Good news for you." Doc slowed down, deepen his voice a bit and gave Catharine the best seductive wink that he had which looked more like a pale yellow mudslide going downhill. "So, seeing any body lately?" Doc question was answered with a more disturbed then confused look from Catherine. "Hehehe, worry not, I kidded. 92 year old, getting married and making moves on females would be pointless. Plus body no longer function, as you can see." Doc continued with his fast, monotonous tone and that PR grin in between pauses.
Axel then cut his ramble: "I think you have done enough with lighting up the mood, Doc. It is better for us to move on."
"Ahem, point taken." Doc said after he had completely disabled his ability to laugh. "So, mood have been lighten up, introduction has been completed. The only thing remain is. Oh forgot, Catherine what about you?"
"Catherine Kobb, that's all you need to know, for now."
Doc replied while scanning her with his left eye. "UUUUUUUUUUUUUuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Good enough. Next, can you use your Digital fabricator? If so demonstrate. Safety procedures. Don't want to see you lose a torso or something. Don't give me that look, Rick , it had happened before."
Out of instinct, she looked down at her right arm and saw the device. The piece of gadget had taken a large portion of her right sleeve. It did not have any buttons, just a small screen and a projector on the smooth metal surface. She activated the Digital fabrication process with her thought. A hub popped in front of her eyes and gave her the option to collect her pistols. The projector on the device let out the image of her beloved guns floating in midair. She just grabbed them out of the air and put them back on her shoulders afterward.
"Good to see the updates doing its job." Doc said while adjusting a few things on his left arm.
Noticed Catherine's customized guns, Rick said: "Nice piece, but to truly make it in the Outland you need one of these." And activated his own fabricated device. The projection formed into a single barrel RPG with a blue plastic light shell, hovering in the air. Rick then yanked the weapon and tossed it to her. She caught it easily and put it in firing position. The thing was strangely light. She got the feeling of holding a thin roll of silk when she put it on her shoulder. Rick continued. "Not the best thing in the world but it's pretty beastly for a single shot, I tell you that. Consider it an apology gift."
"Okay, Emboar, em, Rick."
"You're welcome."
"Oh and I got something else for you." Doc said and gave Catherine a small device painted in Genesis's color with a crystal at its center. "A field generator, for your protection. Most of us call it Barrier. Self-explanatory, it generated a force field around you that would block all manner of attack and projectiles coming your way, like bullets. Be mindful, doing this will drain its power and making it less and less effective. And, what do you know? It will eventually disappear. But that when the crystal came into place. Whenever the power runs out, it reenergizes the generator and restores the force field. This takes time though, so when you are hit, just run away, temporarily. Worry not. This will not affect your own projectiles, so shoot away."
"That is, awesome. I guess." Catherine said before strapping it on her jean.
Axel picked up his sniper rifle moved toward the center of the room and gave her some syringes containing pink liquid. "And in cases when you took a few hit, use these. They are everything you need from a first aid kit, binding, antiseptic, painkiller, and the likes. They will also repair your damaged tissues at a rapid rate. "When in pain, stick it in your veins". That's not my attempt to be funny, that's the actual words from the creator."
Doc interrupted their conversation. "Uh, yes, met her a few times. Nice young lady. Smell like excessive use of perfume though."
Axel casted off his remark and continued. "However, they cannot replace to role of a doctor, just a mean to give you enough time to stay alive and get treated."
"I don't think I enjoy sticking these sciency bullshit in my body, but I'll take it." She reached her hand out and took the syringes.
Axel said while reloading his gun. "So everything is done, any other questions before we get to work?"
She deconstructed the RPG into blue colored dusts and let her sleeve absorbed it. She then summoned the G678 shotgun to her hands. The shotgun had a plastic like shell just like the RPG Rick gave her. However, it was painted red with black lining and the number G678 imprinted on the side. She looked at the front and saw two barrels that led to forever. She then switched back to the proper holding position. With her index finger on the trigger guard, she asked. "So, who the fuck are we killing now?"
Doc decided to answer. "A Bandit fraction called, well Bandit kingdom. They have taken a lot of Genesis owned land recently. So naturally, we are about to claim some back. Uncreative name, you ask. Understandable, as most bandits have limited education. The name probably come from the strange fetish for the time of kings and knights and they love to spill broken Language of the Old constantly. I wish that whole thing was a joke."
Rick said. "These bandits are a new group so kinda caught us by surprise. But not today. as we gonna gave them the sucker punch they deserve. Big mistake for building a friggin castle in the Outland." He then caught his own punch with his left claws.
Doc said. "Also notice. Small chance, not very optimistic but should look around for some other Pokémon that are not bandits, civilians and the likes. Characteristic should be screaming but not shooting at you. But again, not too optimistic."
Catherine stepped out of her seat. "I see. But just us, against, a castle?"
Rick said and offered a pat on Catherine's back, which she declined. "We are an army of four my lil…eh, friend. Have a little confident in yourself. Beside it's still under construction so shouldn't be hard. A B rank mission after all. We are just going to kill these bastards before they got the chance to be a real threat."
"Okay, when do we get started?" Catherine said then pumped her shotgun, trying to accept the fact that her first enemies were so…strange.
The inside of the plane suddenly shook and caused Catherine to fall on her face. The pains prang up and spread from her non-existing nose. She slowly stood up and reclaimed some of her pride by refusing potential help from the Pokémon in the room. The inside of the plane shook violently, making the four Pokémon held on to the rails above them. An announcement came from the cockpit.
"Okay, prepare to kick ass in 3, 2, and 1. Suck on this you sons of bitches!"
A series of booming sound of cannons erupted from the sides of the wall. They were firing consecutively for 15 to 20 seconds. Each blast rocked the plane and everyone inside it. When the cannons seized firing, Catherine began to feel the shift in pressure inside the plane that made her stomach churned. Not letting that got to her, she held on to her shotgun. The change in the sound of the engine indicated a landing was being made. Rick summoned a large assault rifle with a charred coating and a humongous ammo clip. He turned the safety off, cocked the weapons and made his way to the wall on Catherine's right. Doc was still standing beside Catherine. His mechanical arm stopped holding on to the rail above and activated a projector inside his palm. He summoned a sub machine gun with two clips of ammunition attached on the sides. "Get ready for combat." Doc told Catherine as he finished preparing his weapon.
The wall then started to move, moments after the engine turned into a gently hum. It opened up a gap and let the light come in. Catherine shielded her eyes while the others moved closer to the doorway. Rick popped his knuckles. His flaming beard grew bigger and bigger, heating up the inside of the room, fanning Doc and Axel to the side for a brief moment. A foul stench of rusted metal was also making it way inside as the doorway fully revealed itself.
Their plane was hovering on top of a desert floor filled with large black creators. In between were littered with various Pokémon remain. It was impossible to make out which kind of Pokémon, as blasts from the plane's cannons shredded them into pieces and burnt them to crisp at the same time. Behind the yard filled burning bodies was a metal medieval style castle. At least 50 feet high walls and a mountain in the back protected the castle itself. Said walls were made from leftover armor pieces of tanks and fighter jets in the past. All covered in a thick layer of rust and freshly made holes with the identical sized as the ones on the ground. In the middle of the wall was a drop gate completed with two pulling chains and spikes with the size of a pillar on it. One thing missing from this castle was a moat. However, no one could afford that luxury in the Outland desert.
"Hell Raiser!" Rick yelled before tilting the plane with his jump. When the metallic shoes of his armor were lifted from the floor, his beard rapidly grew in size, engulfing his entire head in flame. He clutched tight to his assault rifle. Flame crawled out of his hand, heated up the gun from the handle all the way to the muzzle. When he touched the ground, the flame on his head shrunk back to its original size. Rick had changed a bit. A thick layer of heat coated the gun in his hand. His eyes were no longer brown. They were burning red. Rick let out a maniacal laughter and charged toward the gate.
The pulling chains extended and dropped the gate down, releasing the welcome committee. A swarm of Nuzleaf, Scrafty with a few Machoke were first in line. They armed with spears, machetes and sidearm and wearing light armors around their body. These armors were made from scrap metal, tires, anything that these bandits could get their hands on in the Outland. They have a piece of red cloth on the top of their helmet for some reason. All of these certainly fitted Doc's description. A few Mandibuzz and Murkrow flew from a nest located somewhere behind the gate. The flying types picked up some of the Nuzleaf, flew until they reached Rick and then bombarded their allies into combat. The Nuzleaf landed with a series of painful thuds. Most of them managed to stand up and moved toward the plane with reduced speed. The Scrafty for an oblivious reason ended up closer to Rick then the air-strike Nuzleaf. They did that just by running normally.
While approaching Rick, the bandits' mouth let out various ramble concerning how they were going to make a stew out of him. Rick answered their suggestion with a crazed laughter as he almost crushed the trigger with his claw. The rifle fired with a chain of booming sound in complimentary to Rick cackle of delight. The bullets left the barrel with explosions and set the targets on fire immediately upon impact. Those who were unfortunately become these targets could feel their skins, fat and flesh cooked before actually felt the force of bullets after bullets threw them to the ground. Grass types were not so fortunate for they were instantly combusted before the bullets even hit, turning each one into crumbling torches in the matter of seconds. Rick laughter were getting louder and louder after each kill. In between his laughter were non-sense shouting like. "THIS IS MY SHOTTY!; THE SWEET SOUND OF SUFFERING. ; STOP SCREAMING OR I'LL KILL YOU!"
Axel along with his sniper rifle stood beside the doorway and provided cover fire for Rick. He activated his visor, making it displayed an abundance of statistics. He took a knee, took aim and pulled the trigger. The extended part of the barrel recoiled back, sending a long and thin shell to the head of a Scrafty, blowing his head clean off. The part with scope lifted up, ejected an empty shell out of his gun and allowed Axel to load another round. He fired another shot and then repeat. Every time he pulled the trigger, the gun kicked, pushing him back with tremendous force. Yet that did not seem to tire him out. He just held that sniper rifle steadily, shots after shots. His help, however, was not needed, as the current bandits could not do much to Rick anyhow. Spears, knives and even bullets that were thrown at Rick general direction. However, they always stopped 2 feet away from the Emboar. Everything that was about to hit him would be blocked by a force and a sound of static before falling to the ground. If an enemy managed to escape Axel's shots and attacked Rick, Rick would give a taunting laugh, bounced off the attack and slowly adjusted the tip of his gun to that enemy.
As Rick advanced to the castle gate, a number of Sandslash drilled their way out the ground and joined the fight in the form of spinning spike balls. One of them darted at Rick, rattling his barrier. Then another slammed his back, completely broke the invisible protection. Another one rose up. This time, Rick gave him the flaming back of his right hand and shouted: "INFERNO BITCH SLAP" really fast. His fiery fist set the Pokémon on fire instantly and sent the burning remains a few feet up in the air. He let out another laugh but soon interrupted by a Sandslash hitting his left side. The armor managed to block and send the Sandslash to the opposite direction. Rick then approached and grabbed him by the neck, then released fire out of his arm and allowed it to latch itself on the Sandslash's head. It began by charred the skin then slowly burned the Sandslash's face. The Sandslash's scream was splitting into parts while the fire slowly chipped him away piece by piece. Soon, the scream connected in to a stream of agony shriek when the fire abruptly grew in size, devoured the Sansslash's head. Another Sandslash launched toward his back, making him drop his victim. This one somehow attached himself on his back and jabbed his claw in between Rick's armor gaps. This failed to penetrate through his armor but it was rather irritating to Rick. Rick tried to reach back but his body structure would not let that happen.
"BIG MISTAKE, YOU LITTLE-"
*Bang*
Rick did not know what happened, only that the Sandslash had stopped. However, judging from the sound and feeling of the Sandslash's weight began to drop, He did not want to know and carried on his assault.
"All right, my turn." Axel said as he ejected a smoking shell out of his rifle. He then absorbed the gun with the handheld device. After the gun was gone he made the device emit a three foot long triangle blade, making it looked like a sword with the device served as a hilt. The blade itself was made from the blue crystal material and it was so slim that it would disappear if was held in a different angle. Axel cartwheel himself out of the plane and landed silently. A Sandslash popped up to his right. He immediately disappeared along with the blade. As the Sandslash passed the space where Axel was, a cut slowly formed under its eyes and stretched all the way to the tip of its tail. In a spilt second, the Pokémon was cut into two. His remain fell to the ground. Its blood painted some color on the sand. Another Sandslash emerged from the ground.
The sands below danced some more and soon that Sandslash bit the dust. What ended his life was a diagonal slash in the torso. Axel reappeared with a bloody blade in his left hand. He then took a quick look at the battlefield and dashed forward, closing the gap between him and Rick. He morphed his blade into a chain with a drill at the end. He proceeded to swing at another Sandslash near Rick's location, impaled the Pokémon in his spinning ball form.
Doc stepped out of the plane, giving Catherine the view of the outside. Doc activated a projector in his right palm, summoned up a small contraption. The thing folded itself into a turret standing on a four-legged pod with a machine gun on top. Activated its laser sight next to the gun, it locked on to one of the flying types and instantly reduced the target into a pile of blood and feathers. He then fired his fully automated sub-machine gun in tandem with it, covering as much of the sky as possible, brought down the flock of Murkrow in rapid succession. Few of which were still holding on to a Nuzleaf. The remains of the flying types and possible Nuzleaf fell on top of Rick's barrier, obscured his vision and stopped his onslaught. "DAMN IT!" Rick yelled before dodging another fallen body.
Doc then holstered his gun and launched from his mechanical arm a white spinning ball in the sky. The ball exploded, spreading white vapor in a large radius. The vapor was some type of icy sustain as it turned everything it into ice statues. The flying types fell to the ground and landed with the sound of shatter glasses. Doc then looked back at Catherine, who was standing motionless with the shotgun in her hand.
(The song M1A1 by the Gorillaz begins to play)
She was looking at the mayhem that had unfolded in front of her. Rick was crushing the head of a Machoke with his feet. Axel, on the other hand, kept on disappearing and reappearing with speed and timing was almost as smooth as Catherine's teleportation. Every time he did so, either an arm would fall or a head would roll. Doc's little contraption was decimating anything that didn't have the foundation logo on their clothes. The laser pointer quickly switched target from target.
"Get off! I ain't got all day for your whimsical bull crap!" The voice inside the cockpit urged her. Catherine tuned it out, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She let the wind and the horrid stench of rust and corpses blow in her face. "Raise and shine, keeper." The malevolent voice said. She jumped and teleported on the pool of blood set by Axel. With her feet on the Sandslash body, she put on her sunglasses, grinned and said: "Same old job." Then looked down at her new weapon. "With much more BOOM!" She began to teleported in a zigzag patterns at blinding speed, caught up with Rick and Axel in mere seconds and left Doc in an astonish state. Rick seem indifferent with her appearance, for he was too busy executing a Machoke with a neck snap. Axel on the other hand, was holding back a kill to avoid being caught in her on coming rampage. She tackled a Scrafty upon exiting her teleportation. She struck the shotgun to the Pokémon body before he got the time to fall down. She pulled the trigger, butchered him in half. Catherine teleported to another target, this time a Nuzleaf that Axel spared. Did not bother gaining in close to him, Catherine just fired the shotgun. The pellets launched from the barrel mangled her target, opened up the Pokémon like a box filled with organ and blood confetti, dyed her coat with a shade of dirty dark red in the process. She teleported to another enemy, attempted to make the front of her coat pure red with bandits' blood. She performed a drop kick in the face of a Scrafty. Her metal sole straight up crushed his face and turned his head to a puddle afterward. Catherine then teleported to get back on her feet, and moved to a Machoke. She raised her shotgun, pressed to his abdomen and squeezed the trigger. However, to her dismay, she got the sound of a gun starving for ammunition instead of cry of pain. The Machoke then took his chance and swung his blade at her, which she dodged with ease. Catherine decided to kill him the old fashion way. She started by bashed his jaw with the stock, staggering him. She switched her grip of the shotgun to match that of a batter's pose and repeatedly swung her gun left and right, each hit sprayed blood mixed up with bad breath in her face. Next, she teleported behind him and used all her strength to whack him in the back, with the blow landed really close to the spine. This dropped him on his knees and semi paralyzed him. The Machoke could not do anything besides looked to his left and saw the tip of Catherine's shotgun stock going for his face. The stock then hit him with a snap, fracturing his skull and mashing parts of his brain. The Machoke then fell to the ground, lying in an awkward position of his leg curled up and both arms stretched out.
(Song ends)
She then took a breather and took the glasses off. Each breath was her body telling her that she could have offed him in a much more efficient fashion. While catching up her breath, Catherine looked back and saw the plane she was in earlier. It looked more like a space shuttle then a conventional plane. The vehicle had two wings carrying two massive engines that appeared to be able to turn from vertical to horizontal. A black one-way glass covered the cockpit. Under it was two cannons. Both were still smoking. The plane then hovered up skyward like a helicopter. A beeping siren suddenly rang on everyone communicators. The voice from the cockpit spoke up. "Lock on? Can somebody kill the idiot with the launcher located on the- Oh god damn it!" A rocket launched itself toward the plane and took out the right engine, crippled it. The plane twirled around for a few second before crashing down 25 feet away from Doc, who was reclaiming his turret. The sound on the communicator changed rapidly from scream of panic to gargling statics rather fast.
The burning carnage was indeed caused by a Scrafty with a RPG. The Pokémon was hiding in a hole opened up from earlier by one of the Sandslash. Unfortunately, for him, that shot toward the plane was his final action before getting his head blow up by Axel's sniper bullet. She caught site of Axel slowly became visible, holding the rifle with one hand and the blade skewing the head of a Nuzleaf in the other. 'That was embarrassing.' he said before removed the blade from the Pokémon head. Doc ran passed Catherine with his gun and said, "Don't worry. He won't be missed." Catherine rested the shotgun on her waist and whipped out Lady Death.
A large number of Pokémon left the gate. A mix group of various Pokémon including a few Electabuzz, Bisharp, a couple Machoke and several Rhydon. This time, they were carrying much bigger guns and wearing more armor. Among them was a few infantries carrying shields made of blast doors and pieces of war machines. Each of these shield had a crude drawing of a crown and gigantic spike that could easily impale Catherine in one well-placed stab. Some Bisharp were carrying smaller round phalanx with the same drawing. Machine guns stroke out of the mail slots on the large shields and fired indiscriminately. These bandits surely did not see themselves going back alive, for the gate began to pull up behind them. Axel made a run for gate but was deterred by a barrage of bullets as the bandits shot at the team with everything they got. The space between them was littered with assault rifle rounds.
Doc quickly crouched down and deployed a set of machine out of his arm projector. This one folded itself into a metal rectangle frame. Doc then gave the others the signal to take shelter behind the frame. However, the only one that obliged was Axel. Two devices located at each far end of the frame flashed their red light and spayed out a large amount of dark blue non-transparent liquid. The substance began to stack up lay after layer and became a blue jelly wall in mere seconds. It was wide enough for both Axel and Doc along with another Pokémon to take cover from enemy fire. The wall took quite a beating. Each bullet punched through the surface, blasting away a few drops of the wall. Yet, miraculously, not a single bullet went through all the way. They all would just went mid-way inside the gel and then just stay there in stasis.
Finished loading up his sniper rifle, Axel popped up to dish out a few more shots. Rick and Catherine were both in the open and none of them wanted to back away from enemy fire. Catherine, with Lady Death in her hand was in a constant teleportation loop. She was trying to put some psychic bullets into the eyes of the bandits, but her shots were not sharp enough. Even their torso was hard for her to hit. The whole time she just tried her luck and hoped that her shots would stick.
Rick, in some way, in this hail of bullets, he was having a ball. His laughter was getting louder. At the same time, the electric static surrounded Rick was becoming more frequent after each hit. However, that did not bother him. Probably because who would not love easy targets standing in front of them? Unlike Catherine, he did not need to jump back and forth and fire his weapon at random, he just needed to stand still and spray lead. Rick's attack burned most of the unshielded enemies in the frontline. From time to time, a few others would be send flying backward with a bullet nailed in the chest or stood still and held on to a head that was no longer there. Doc just leisurely released a blue buzzing orb. The orb struck a bandit and exploded, spreading electric waves. The effect burned their flesh and made them dance for Doc's amusement. This along with his submachine gun made the number of enemies wither down rather fast.
Meanwhile, the shield infantries was coming closer to Doc's gel cover, indicated by the sound of bullet hitting the blue gel getting more rapid. Rick's barrier finally failed and exposed him to the oncoming fire. The bullets cracked his armor. He covered his face with his left arm and fired his assault weapon blindly. However, the only kind of bandits that were still standing was the one with the shields. Noticed the sound of his bullet just ricocheted off the shields, Rick could not help but groaned. He then recalled the assault rifle and summoned a six-barrel rocket launcher. The bandits then focus their attack on Rick even more, making him shot a salvo of six rockets to the sky. The rockets flew upward for a few feet then changed course and rain down on the bandits, who knelled down and let their shield to take the fiery explosions.
Took the opportunity, Catherine summoned a grenade and held it in her left arm. She released the dark purple aura out of her sleeve and let it engulf the grenade. She pulled the pin and closed her right eye. Catherine threw it at the bandits, all of whom were still kneeling. One of the Bisharp saw the piece of explosive laid on the ground and shout: 'We got boom.' ,telling the rest to stay put before picking it up and threw it upward. Without saying a word, Catherine conjured up a purple cloud around her left hand and held it into a fist. "Singularity." She said at the same time as a dark purple vortex began to from around the grenade. The grenade the pulled the Bisharp laying around it up in the air. They were floating helplessly around the small grenade. Catherine dropped Lady Death to the ground and used both her hand to make the vortex even more powerful. Overtime, more and more enemy was sucked up. Some held on to their heavy shields and managed to remain on the ground. However, most of them fell victim to the traction. The inevitable happened-the grenade went off. The explosion was small, but the density of enemy around it made up for that. Limps and body parts from some of the Bisharp became unintentional shrapnel, killed and injured the rest. The bandits became disorganize and stun from Catherine's attack. The remaining troops stood up and held on to their respective protection. Those who lost it just took out their gun and charge forward.
With the reduction in enemies' number and their lack of focus, Axel took out his blade and became invisible once again. Doc from cover provided Catherine with cover fire and warnings about potential threats. Axel reappeared beside a Rhydon, who was about to ram Catherine with his massive shield. Axel chopped off both his arms with one well swipe, dropping the shield. Axel retracted the blade turned around. Axel then thrust a newly constructed blade in the eye of the Rhydon, not even bat an eye as he did so. Rick and Doc soon joined in the effort of dividing the group before they could recover. From the cover, Doc summoned and threw a device at the mob. It got behind the bandits and took a few second to deploy into a spinning flamethrower, setting them on fire, sending the Pokémon into a panic state. After setting a few Electabuzz and Machoke were on fire, the device went off with a bang. Rick did his thing, running toward enemies and punching them until they give up. Rick changed to another large shielded enemy. The Pokémon behind it tried to tackle the Emboar with his shield. Rick just caught the spike by the tip and spun it. After two or three rotations, Rick tossed the shield along with the Pokémon to the gate, impaled him on the spikes. Rick them made his way to the smaller ones, punching his fiery fist in the phalanx until they give in to the recoiled. Then Rick would strip the shield and punch the Pokémon in the face or crush its head using both his hand. At one point, instead of throwing away the shield, he kept it and us it as a way to bash the Pokémon in the face. Doc summoned his turret once again, but the little machine was having a hard time to pick a target as Catherine and Axel were killing things left to right fluently. The machine did not want to interrupt that, or at least it was not programmed to. When the last bandit got his head cut off by Axel, the black metal door shut tight, blocking the team view of the castle.
Leaving the corpses behind, Rick ran toward the gate and punched the iron door. However, that did not do a thing. Rick gave it pounding after pounding. The door still did not budge.
"Great, Rave is dead. How do we suppose to get inside?" Rick said while shaking the pain out of his fist. His voice went back to the easygoing tone and his eyes return to normal.
"I'm not dead you fat bastard! Now, can someone help me out this? What am I smelling? Oh god. Help...*static*" The communicator abruptly shut off.
"So close." Rick sighed and went for another punch.
Doc said. "Look like my experimental safety foam work. Which is good, in some regards."
"Anyhow, he's still out, so what now?" Rick said, continued punishing the gate with his fist.
Catherine dusted Lady Death and put it back on her shoulder. "How about this?" Catherine said then put her left palm on the gate, feeling the leftover vibration. She began to concentrate, her eyes started to glow purple. "Gravity" she said. Her palm then emitted a dark purple aura, spreading all across the gate. The gate then slowly absorbed the purple mist of aura. Catherine lifted her hand and put her right foot on the metal door. She then put her left foot on it and started to take a leisure stroll on the vertical surface. Doc and the others watched in awe as she made it halfway through. Standing on the broadside of the gate, she yelled. "Come on, don't be little bitches and step on. We still got things to kill!" Doc gently stroked his mustache. "Fascinating, a special ability. Should be asking questions later on."
"What's special about that? It just the move Gravity used in a different angle." Axel said while pressing a few button on his visor.
"Dude, hate to be that guy, but Kirlia can't learn that move naturally or even through updates. Therefore, what she did there was giving the finger to Arceus. And that takes balls, or whatever works for her." Rick said while trying to position his foot on the door. He was struggling a bit when placing his other foot on it.
"Alright team, suggest picking up the pace and…" Axel did not say anything and just ran on the metal gate, Rick then followed with delight, leaving Doc behind. Doc was mumbling something under his breath and walked his way up, created a series of banging sound in the process. Half way on the gate, Axel moved ahead of Catherine and summoned a single barrel RPG. The rest of the group picked up their pace after him and all whipped up their launchers as well. Doc has a three barrels and yellow coating launcher. Rick had his six barrels RPG from before and Catherine whipped out the one Rick gave to her. The moment they reached the top of the gate, they jumped down into the castle.
Behind the gate was the unfinished castle. The main building was the only thing that was nearly done. The courtyard were littered with small tents, undergoing constructions and of course, bandits. They were running around with weapons in their hands and some were climbing up ladders connected to the walls. Those in the middle of the field were loading things onto various vehicles. Everyone inside was frozen when they saw the team making their way in. Rick yelled with enthusiasm. 'Get owned!' The team fired their weapon, sending salvos of homing rockets all over. Except for Catherine, whose rocket just ran in a straight line. Catherine and Axel propelled upward while Rick and Doc fall down. Rick's six rockets danced around and swirled back to the ones on the wall, eliminated them with massive explosions. Axel's single rockets split into ten rockets and went seeking for a random target. Doc's three rockets just locked on groups of targets on the ground. Catherine had the worst luck for her one and only rocket just went straight to a tent near the edge of the main building. Then the wooden thing suddenly transformed into a giant fireball that reached to the heaven, taken out a large piece of building. She could not say anything else but exclaimed, "Holy fuck." Should any bandit survive the team's onslaught, he would remember not to store a large amount of fuel and explosive in the open. However, the possibility for that to happen was, slim.
Doc latched on Rick's back, summoned up and stuck two jet packs on Rick's back while Rick charged up his fist in flame while yelling. "INFERNO…..." Doc then activated the jet packs, launched the duo downward with the speed of a rocket. Doc then held his mechanical fist upward and created a semi red sphere around himself. "NOVA" was what Rick said when his fist touched the ground. The impact sent a tsunami of flame covering the ground of the base and created a tremor that shook the entire castle. Structures bent backward and melted as the wave passed by. The attack smashed Doc and Rick's barrier instantly. Doc's extra barrier seem to be much stronger and just barely keep him from injuries. Rick however had his suit taken heavily damaged and the plates on Rick's fist melted completely. Despite that, his claws and hand were still intact.
Catherine descended slowly by short-range teleport bursts and landed on the ground seconds later. "What in the flying fuck are you guys?" Catherine asked while Doc climbed down from Rick's back and fixing the armor. He started disassembling a few pieces, threw them on the ground and summoned up replacement parts. The speed and sound he made was identical to a racecar pit crew. More bandits were coming from the main building, extremely pissed but also extremely scared. Axel landed gently while engulfed himself in a green, transparent ball. The ball dispersed when it touched the ground, allowing him to put both of his hand on the burning surface. "Absolute Barricade!" he yelled. A wall of made from huge thorn trees sprouted from the charred ground, successfully divided the castle ground.
He glanced at Catherine and said, "Protect us while I recharge."
"What?" Axel's eyes then closed and his body collapsed on the ground, completely content with the heat. "The, the fuck?" Catherine said.
"Recharging in short, efficient sleep cycles. Should be up in around 30 seconds." Doc said after her had replace a large portion of Rick's armor.
"'You have got to be shitting me." She said while charging up a Focus Blast.
"Suggest doing his request instead of vulgar languages."
"Don't worry, I still got a gun to help you." Rick said while raising his gun and gave her a thumb up.
A drill began to pierce through the plant wall and a head of a Rhydon stick in. "Hereeeeeee...Aghhhhhhhhh" was what he could say before his face were exposed to Catherine's Focus Blast. It then followed by the sound of cursing and arguing from the other side. Soon, all that changed to the sound of chopping from axes and noise of chainsaws pounding from the other side of the wall. Catherine then gather up orange energy in her palm. Rick helped by shooting those who were gullible enough to follow the Rhydon's example. In a few seconds, holes caused by both sides littered the thorn wall. The wall was becoming weaker and slowly tilted to the team's side as a result.
"Andddddddddddddddddd, it is done!" Doc said in triumph.
"Al-god damn-right! Let's get back to the killing!" Rick quickly stood up and performed another Hell Raiser.
The wave of flame sent Doc aback and slightly burnt his coat. "Rick! A warning in advance would be preferable."
"WHO THE FUCK CARE?" Rick said before running toward the wall of giant thorns and summoned a barrel of unknown substance. He emptied the content inside the barrel by pouring it in his mouth. When the barrel was empty, he stepped back and sprayed the liquid outs with his mouth. The black substance then lit up by his beard, created a widespread wave of flames, and ignited the wall. As the fire was getting bigger, gradually consuming the plant barricade, the base of the wall began to open up with a moving cut mark. Only when the cut passed in front of Rick did it turn out to be a half-invisible Axel holding device. This time the blade had morphed into an extremely long Katana. Axel then proceeded to the end of the wall and fully severed the barricade he had created. Catherine launched her long charged Focus blast, created an explosion that made the wall tilted to the other side. Rick and Doc summoned their RPG and sent another salvo of missiles to the burning wall. The direct hit made the entire thing began collapse to the other side. Collected screams and the sound of distress were coming from the bandits. However, all were immediately silenced in a loud crumbling noise. Suddenly, a series of planes and helicopters decorated with the crude drawing along with spike and various scraps then flew from the mountain behind the castle, exiting the scene.
"Must be higher ranking bandits. Do they have those? Hmm. Curious. Need more info." Doc said while trailing after the convoy. When the last helicopter disappeared out of sight, he turned to the rest of the team. "Whew. Well, it appears that we are done with the main objectives. Try to look inside for salvages, clues and eradicate the rest of the bandits." Doc said and summoned a crystal tablet and typed something on it.
Then came a sound, a large chunk of flaming plants was tossed upward as a rocky hand emerged from the ember wall. It latched on to the still burning pieces and pulled an eleven feet Rhyperior out. He was wearing a golden painted knight armor that only covered his head and a large portion of his torso. "Thou shalt die for disturbed the king's slumber." Said the Pokémon as he freed himself.
"That remains to be seen." Said Doc as he deployed a turret with two large machine guns and a rack of missiles. The turret's laser sight the quickly locked on the Rhyperior and let it rip. A barrage of bullets and missiles was thrown at him. However, the Pokémon gigantic arms blocked all of them. After a few second, the Ry realized that the little machine was doing almost nothing to him. He let down his arm, casually took the turret attacks and gave Doc a killer's look.
Noticed the Rhyperior's intention, Rick charged at him with a fist dipped in flame. The Rhyperior changed his interest and intercepted Rick's attack with his rocky fist. The sound of a tank's shell met a mountain of granite was heard as their attack collided and locked their fists. Rick let out loud scream while the Rhyperior used his other hand to pummel Rick. Worked through pain, Rick caught the Rhyperior's arm before it could touch him. The Rhyperior pressed Rick down, using his advantage in size. Rick triggered a larger Hell Raiser, engulfing his upper body in flame. A surge of power went through Rick as he was steadily pushing the Rhyperior upward. The Rhyperior did not let up. He went all out and showed Rick his strength. Tons of pressure were laid on Rick. The Emboar's armor let out sound of malfunction from the piston, the newly assembled parts began to shatter. Outsized and no match for the Rhyperior's power, Rick was instantly brought to his knees. The flame on his head started to get smaller, and his grip on the Rhyperiour was getting weaker. "Thou art finished." Said he as he pushed Rick down with everything he got, trying to snap Rick spine in half. Rick closed his eyes and clenched his teeth, doing whatever he could to get back up.
His savior came in the form of a large spinning white ball that went straight for the Rhyperior's head. It exploded and froze a large portion of his face. "Bingo" Doc said while holding his mechanical arm in firing position. The sudden attack successfully staggered the Rhyperior, making him released pressure on Rick. Axel summoned a long crystal crossbow with a scope attached on. It was probably made of the same blue crystal that most of the items in the Foundation are made of. He summoned a cyan blue arrow, shoved it in a gap. The weapon automatically loaded up the arrow, leaving Axel with the task of aiming and squeezing the trigger. The arrow struck the Rhyperior's neck while he was shaking off the ice on his face. Rick stepped back, juiced the blood out of his fist and ignited it. The ice arrows then went off into miniature explosions of sub-zero air, covering the Rhyperior's neck and torso in ice, burning his flesh. Rick then shattered all the ice with an uppercut so powerful that it knocked the Rhyperior backward several feet. The Rhyperior could not make any other sound but screaming. Rick advanced forward with a devious grin; his hand was maintaining a fist. However, the Rhyperior caught him by surprised by blocked Rick's on coming attack and hooked him in the jaw. Rick was stun. The Rhyperior then used both his arm to grab and throw Rick to the ashes of the thorn wall. Rick landed face down, unconscious.
Axel continuously firing his freeze arrows while running backward. The Ryperior took most of the arrow with his hand and allowed them to go off on it. The Rhyperior dug his hands to the ground, ripped a large chunk out and hurled it at Axel. Axel proceed to dodged it with a side roll before turning invisible. That made the Pokémon even angrier, turning his head furiously, looking for a new target and Doc's turret was the only thing in his reach. Doc switched the mode on the turret, making its cannons shoot more rapidly at the Rhyperior. Fueled by anger and frustration as his newest prey had escaped, the Ry went berserk and charged toward the turret. With gained momentum, he destroyed the machine with one swift backhand. "There was no call for that kind of behavior." Doc said so as he shot an ice ball at the Rhyperior, making the Pokémon covered his face with his arms. The ball flew and struck the Rhyperior's hands. The explosion sealed the arms together like a crystal shackle. Doc was moving closer to the gate, planning to get far away before becoming the Rhyperior next target. The just broke free from the icy bond and screamed, "Die. You Cowards." afterward.
The Rhyperior yanked a large boulder and threw it at Doc. Doc quickly raised his left arm and sped through his speech. "Redundant emergency barrier" His arm created a large red ball surrounded him, smashed the boulder into smithereens upon impact and disappeared as sudden as its arrival. Doc then noticed a Rhyperior was coming at him like a steam train. The Pokémon was showing his teeth and eyes full of hate. "Die!" he spat at Doc.
"Oh my…" Doc exclaimed before actually turning around.
Suddenly, the Rhyperior train fell off its track after a collision with a large ball of red energy. After the loud boom, the Rhyperior tumbled and rolled in seemingly endless loops, causing a huge amount of dust to fly. Moment later, the dust settled, reviewing the Rhyperior. He lied there, motionless. The right side of his armor was completely blasted open, exposing his rocky, brown and red flesh. Underneath him was a long, thick trail of crimson blood. Didn't wish to take any chances, Doc ran off to a safe distance near the gate but not before adding some insult to the Rhyperior injury by throwing an ice ball at the top of the Pokémon head, turning it into a cup for a spiky snow cone. After getting to a safe place and noticed the Rhyperior was still unmoving, he yelled at Catherine. "That would have been lovely if it had happened a few minutes earlier!"
"That damn shot need a shit ton of time to charge up. And fuck you, I saved your ass."
"How about this tactic? Subduing him with your weaker blast, and let us kill him. That is so much simpler."
"That's a great fucking idea, how about telling me that…"
The Rhyperior lifted his head up and took a painful breath, interrupted the short and bitter conversation of the two. He slowly stood up, let out streams of blood running from the gaping hole in his armor. He did not bother screaming or shook off Doc's sculpture on his head but instead just taking quick and short breaths while getting up. Blood began to leak out of his neck and face. The Rhyperior got back on his feet after a full minute of struggle. "Hey, fuck face! Right here!" Catherine said as she unloaded a shotgun clip at the Rhyperior. The shots shatter the ice on top of his head. Some of the pallets dug into his armor and face. Catherine shotgun let out a few click, hungry for another clip. The Rhyperior then moved toward her with the speed of a rock covered in tar. She shot a half charged Focus Blast at his face. However, that did not seem to faze him nor enraged him like before. He was just walking to her at the sluggish rate. His eyes were tired and were about to completely shut tight. "What's the matter? Fucking out of breath? C'mon what happened to that "Thou shall die" thing?" Catherine taunted the Rhyperior, who was still approaching her with that state. Suddenly, the Rhyperior picked up speed. Catherine charged up another Focus blast and teleported further away from the Rhyperior. Saw Catherine's attack the Rhyperior started to speed up, slowly yet steadily. When he was half way to her he said, "I shalt take thou with..." A sniper bullet drilled into his left eye, making the Pokémon bit down the pain and silenced him. The shot did not slow him down if anything that made him went even faster. Another sniper shot and another went for his head but them just blown the helmet off and dug in the rocks that were the Rhyperior's eyes brows.
"It's not working!" Catherine said. Only then, did Axel reappear beside her with the smoking sniper in hand. He fired another shot. This time nearly struck the Rhyperior's forehead but still did not stop him. Axel put one of his fingers on the ground then said, "Okay, do what you got to do, just keep him on this track." Axel told Catherine before she sprinted forward to the Rhyperior. Saw his opponent coming at him; the adrenaline gave the Ryperior even more speed. When he was at top speed, Catherine teleported out of the way. Her movement were similar to a matador in bullfight.
Axel then whispered: "Grass knot". Before the Rhyperior could slow down and react, he tripped and fell to the ground. A loud thud marked his landing. The Rhyperior slowly raise his head once again. All the Rhyperior saw after that was Catherine's Focus Blast. "Bang!" She said before throwing the ball to his head. The blast shredded the rocks on top of his head and destroyed his face, leaving behind nothing brown flesh and red oozing blood around the empty eyes and the drill on his for head. Even after that, the Rhyperior's mouth was still moving and the veins were still pulsing.
Axel walked to him, attempted to end his misery in a rifle shot. When he was reloading, Catherine took out Anima and knelled down. She then pressed the barrels of her gun on the eyes socket of the Rhyperior. "Something, something, Language of the Old." Said Catherine before she pulled the trigger. The bullets went straight and exploded in his head from the inside.
Rick moved toward Axel's side, with his hand held his jaw. "That's it? That's your badass finishing line?" Rick said while staring down at the Pokémon's remain and spat on it.
She simply said. "Shut the fuck up. But seriously though. What the fuck is up these guys? My own Pokémon stuck in the fucking Dark Age, we don't speak like that."
"So, you guy swear all the time?" Rick asked.
"No, that's just me but still."
"Who would have thought an uneducated scumbag would make you more sociable." Said Doc as he cautiously kicking the body of the Rhyperior.
"Just, shut the fuck up."
Exposition time:
The digital fabricator: A piece of technology created by Genesis. It has the ability to break down certain objects into unique form of energy, absorb them and store them in data form. When needed, it will re-construct them base on digital blueprints provided by previous scanning.
Hell Raiser: This technique give the user (preferably fire types) increase in durability, moment speed and fire type attacks damage for an amount of time. However, triggering it send the user in a berserk state resulted in losing self-control.
Singularity: Catherine used the move Gravity on a small object (such as a rock or a grenade). And focus the attack only on that object. This will created a black hole effect that drag enemies to the object and hold them in place. The more focus, the stronger the force. Catherine can increase the effectiveness by using Psychic to levitate the object.
Author's notes:
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