Pokémon Trainer Hero
Chapter 91: Fight Night
It was nighttime at one of the many abandoned seaside piers. The whole place was pitch black. The only lights coming from the moon, the city far out, and one particular shipping and storage warehouse that was booming with muffled sound from within. The specks of light that glinted out from the windows were covered up by black sheets. This was one of Japan's many illegal fighting rings.
From within was a much different story. Loud music boomed off loudspeakers placed all over, and a wall-to-wall bar was set up with several tables, with a betting booth on the opposite side. Four bouncers stayed at the door and let people in now and again. People mingled with one another; talking, dancing, or trading illegal drugs and goods. In the center were tall viewing bleachers that were nearly filled with screaming and cheering people. In the center of the bleachers was a tall chain-link fence. Inside the cage, a fight was already happening.
A small man covered in sharp hard spikes was bouncing a man that was more muscle than man. His body was so huge he looked more like a parody of a bodybuilder. The sharp man was jumping around the hard slams from the huge guy, and always managing to hit him with his spikes! But the big guy clapped his hands together and caused a huge shock wave to knock the small guy over, where the big guy jumped up and slammed both hands onto the small guy.
A bell rings off to the side and the big guy backs off. Near the front was a stage with the DJ booty sitting on it. Sitting inside was the DJ/Hype man/leader of this ring. The DJ was seated on top of a small aquarium that held a Magikarp swimming back and forth while to his sides were four Loudred that acted as mixers and auto-tune.
Several of the people around had some kind of Pokemon with them. Whether it was held, sat on the shoulder, or following beside them.
Then the DJ spoke into his mic and announced, "And Little Freak goes down at the hands of Mighty Mass! Another win for the undefeated champion!", The crowd cheered as people went off to collect money or get money from people they betted with right there. The DJ then announced his offer, "Who here is willing to take on the awesome power of Mighty Mass!"
Many people backed away from fear or pretended not to notice, some even straight up ran away. It almost seemed like the undefeated would remain until one voice shouted, "I'll do it!"
People were immediately intrigued by this voice and many looked around for the origin. The DJ, who couldn't spot the person, called out, "Oh ho! Who is the brave soul willing to go up against someone with the power of All Might himself!?"
Then the crowd parted as a man wearing a judo outfit came into the fighting ring, stood right in front of the DJ, and brought their shadow-covered head, hidden by a red headband as they declared, "I am."
The DJ took a minute to take his brains, but then realized who he was and tried to say, "Hey wait a minute! You're the."
"Yeah yeah, the Pokemon Hero Trainer. I've heard it time and time again! Just call me Garfield, okay?", Gar told him, leading to the stopping of the music and a total silence around the whole area, with fearful gasps from the crowd.
The DJ was scared at first but then put on a smile as he stated, "Didn't expect you in a place like this. You must put up a good front?"
Gar rolled his eyes and demanded, "Say whatever you want. So are you going to let me fight or not?"
"I would but last I checked you don't have a quirk.", The DJ vexed him, causing the crowd to chuckle.
Gar shrugged and offered, "True, but I do have Pokémon."
"That would be completely unfair!", The DJ denied while slamming his fist on the booth.
"I thought you might say that, so tell you what, I'll make you a deal.", Gar said with devilish honey words, grabbing the DJ's intrigue. "I came here looking for some information. And through the grapevine, I heard that you know about a lot of things all over the city.", Gar stated to the man.
"Maybe I do.", The DJ fired back, neither denying nor confirming anything.
"So I'll take on your strongest guy. And I'll do it.", Gar offered while going to his belt and pulling off a single Pokeball while finishing, "With one Pokémon."
"You got yourself a deal!", The DJ didn't hesitate to accept. Gar went back to the edge of the ring while the DJ made his announcement and got everyone revved up. "Alright, people I hope you're excited, because we have a suuuuuper special tonight! The Pokemon Hero Trainer vs Mighty Mass!", He called out, making nearly everyone come to the cage, with a big hole where Gar was standing.
Just before closing the chain link gate door, he threw out the Pokeball and called, "Go Girafarig!"
Once the Pokemon was revealed everyone began to laugh at it, seeing how funny it looked. When Mighty Mass stepped back into the ring and saw Girafarig, he also laughed while approaching the Pokémon with thundering footsteps.
He gently stroked the Pokemon and said, "HA HA HA! Funny-looking pony is funny."
"Let's Gooooooooo!", The DJ cried out, ringing the bell and starting the match.
Mighty Mass didn't notice as he was preoccupied with petting the Pokemon, so Gar took advantage and called, "High Jump Kick!"
Girafarig quickly whirled around and knocked the huge man right in his jaw! He stumbled back, clutching his jaw in pain! He quickly noticed how it had been dislocated and he quickly snapped it painfully back in place.
He glared at the smug-looking Pokemon and roared, "Funny-looking pony hurt Mighty Mass! Mighty Mass crush funny looking pony!"
Mighty Mass raised his massive fist and tried to bring it down in the Pokemon, but Gar called out, "Dodge!"
Girafarig easily jumped out of the way and landed a few feet away, making Mighty Mass confused by how elegantly and easily it dodged.
Mighty roared and proceeded to smash his fists over and over again, trying to smash Girafarig. But Gar called out, "Keep dodging!"
Girafarig did as she was told and kept easily jumping, hopping, and skipping out of every attack Mighty Mass threw at her, making the huge man grow even angrier! Now and again, when there was an opening, Gar would call out for a High Jump Kick and always hit the huge man! He'd stumble and shift awkwardly on his huge body, only to get more mad with every hit he received or missed!
This game of cat and mouse went on until Gar called out, "High Jump Kick on his leg!", Girafarig obeyed and after skidding away from another ground punch, she kicked the man straight in his ankle, causing him to fall over where Gar yelled, "Now Stomp!"
Girafarig brought up her front legs and brought them down hard on the man's head! Making it seem as though he had been knocked out from the attack. Seeing her opponent fall to her, she turned away and slowly began to clip-clop her way back to a happily beaming Gar. Leaving a stunned or anxious or angry-looking cry behind.
Gar turned his attention to the DJ and proclaimed smugly, "Ha! Is this your best fighter?"
The DJ laughed and declared back, "Oh he's just getting warmed up."
Having said that, he put on his headphones and began to up the ante on the music! Making it seem like the second stage of a boss battle. Gar grew cautious of this and didn't notice when Mighty Mass got up and grabbed Girafarig from behind!
Mighty Mass, covered in swelling facial bruises and a half-broken foot, yelled, "Mighty Mass finally caught Funny Looking Pony! Now Mighty Mass-!"
"Crunch!", Gar called out, causing the second head on the Pokémon's rear to launch out and bite him on his nose and upper lip.
Mighty Mass screamed in pain as he tried to pull the Pokemon off his face, but it wouldn't let go! So he ripped it off, taking his nose and upper lip with it while throwing it to the wayside. After examining himself and after seeing his missing parts in Girafarig's second head's mouth, he screamed in a mix of anger and pain while charging at the creature.
Gar smiled at this and commanded, "Psy beam!"
Girafarig turned around and ran at Mighty Mass, horns down and glowing with weird power. Once in range, Girafarig jumped to his eye level and shot a beam of psychic energy right into his face! Mighty Mass was thrown back with his momentum before flipping over and flying straight over Girafarig! He landed with a crash and lay motionless, leading to a large gap around the room with a cutting off of the music.
Gar stood up straight, smiling at his victory, and looking at the DJ he said, "Winner winner, Combusken dinner."
The DJ bolted at the same time everyone screamed and started to scramble, causing chaos everywhere! The DJ had a hard time getting through the crazed and panicked crowd, so Far was able to act quickly!
Bursting through the chain link cage he pointed at the DJ and called, "Girafarig!"
The Pokemon knew what was being told and hooked the unconscious Mighty Mass with her horns before throwing the huge baby at the fence! The DJ, who had been pushed to the fence in his escape, turned in time to see the body of Mighty Mass crash and knock over the chain link right on top of him! Trapped underneath, the DJ attempted to shimmy his way out of the fence only to be quickly stopped.
"Stomp!", Gar yelled as Girafarig ran to the man and Stomped her hooves down onto his body, knocking the wind out and pinning him down.
As the chaos was dying around the fleeing people, Gar casually walked across the chain link fence and to the side of the nearly out-cold DJ who was gasping for air. He leaned down to him and asked, "And just where do you think you're going? What happened to our deal? I thought there was honor among thieves."
The DJ coughed violently before spitting out, "Screw you and you deal! You hero halfwit!"
Gar slammed his food on the man's face as he irritatedly told him, "Let me correct you on something. I am no hero!", He then lifted his foot off, letting the man look up at him with an angry face and teary eyes, as Gar continued, "And let me ask you something else. You have a minor regeneration quirk, yes? You can heal from third-degree burns and grow fingers back?"
"So what if I can.", The DJ shot back.
Gar give him a sickly sweet smile while drumming his fingers together and explaining, "So I'm not gonna feel sorry about what I do next.", The DJ looked confused before Gar explained further, "Since your lips aren't as loose as they should be, I'm gonna play a little game that'll help with that."
"Game?", He questioned, feeling nervous.
"It's called, This Little Tepig.", He told him while pulling up his hand where Girafarig turned around and lowered her second head. Gar then sang, "This little Tepiggy went to market.", And Girafarig put one of his fingers off, making the man scream. "This little Tepiggy stayed home.", Another finger and scream. "This little Tepiggy had roast beef.", A third finger and scream. "And this little Tepiggy had none.", The four fingers came off.
"You bastard! Stooooop!", Screamed the DJ.
"It can stop right now if you tell me what I want!", Gar stated forcefully while pulling his arm.
The man let out a small sob and then told him, "Okay okay, I'll talk. What you do is; go down to the convenience store. You ask for something called Viagra. And it'll help you go fuck yourself!", Girafarig bit off the last finger as the DJ screams, "AHHHHHH! YOU BITCH!"
"And every word you say just pisses me off more!", Gar growled while letting the other arm go. He then sighs and tells him, "I guess we'll have to continue with this little Tepiggy."
He then grab out his other hand and began to sing the song over again as Girafarig but off his fingers one at a time. Like last time it ended when all his fingers were gone as the DJ still refused to say anything.
Gar then let go of his arm and said disappointed, "Oh, would you look at that? We're all out of little Tepiggy.", He then leaned in close to the crying man's face a d whisperer dangerously, "You wanna know what we do when there's no more little Tepiggy?"
Finally, he broke and yelled through tears, "Okay! okay! I'll talk! I'LL TALK! ANYTHING YOU WANT!"
"Good boy.", Gar smiled while petting his head through the chain link, only to slap his hand next to his face as he demanded, "Now tell me about Bayo!"
"Who?", The DJ asks back.
Girafarig then turns around and points her girns at his face, while they glow with power. The DJ made a frightened noise as Gar yells, "Don't you dare act coy with me! I've only known you for five minutes and I can tell you're completely incompetent and a fool to boot!", The DJ looks hurt by his comment, but Gar continues, "There's no way that the leader of an underground fight ring could gain access to Pokemon! Pokeballs are only for the police to use and for me! All the Pokemon you and your crew have been tame. So the only explanation is that you got into contact with Bayo and he supplied you.", He accused the man.
"Okay okay! You're right, I did get supplied by him.", The DJ finally cracks.
"When did you meet him!? What's his plan!? Talk!", Gar demanded.
The DJ shook his head and told him, "I don't know anything about his big plans! Honest. He came to me two months ago and struck up a deal. He said that so long as I delivered his supplies and did any other small or menial task he asked for, he'd supply me and my boys. That's it!"
Girafarig brings her buzzing horns closer and Far says in a dangerous tone, "I think you're holding out on me."
The man concedes and finally tells him, "Okay okay! H-He did mention something, quite recently too. Said he needed all the funds he could get before the start of his actual plans."
"Actual planes?", Gar questions.
"He's waiting for something to happen before he strikes out with whatever he's got cooking. That's all I know!", The man told him in a hurry.
"What are you planning, Bayo?", Gar asks as he looks out into nothing.
"Having said that.", The DJ tells him after sniffling back, grabbing Gar's attention as he admitted, "Quite recently, I've been doing a damn good job working under him."
"And that's important, why?", Gar asks back in a snippy tone.
The DJ smiles evilly and explains, "Because, he said that so long as I do good and stay loyal. He'll reward me with a little….bonus from time to time."
"What are you talking about!?", Gar demands, looking him dead into his vexing eyes.
"How about I show you.", The DJ offered while whistling through his teeth.
Gar looks over to a darkened area and sees a small Pokemon hip in view. It is a light-purple Pokémon with a vaguely humanoid appearance. It has green eyes with yellow sclera, a yellow ring marking on its forehead, a small, pink dot under each eye, and dark pink hair tied into a short ponytail. On either side of its head is a dark gray horn that curves slightly upward. Its body has a dark pink, V-shaped marking on the chest and a small, golden spike on each shoulder. Its arms are not attached to its body and instead float next to it; each arm has a small golden spike similar to those on its shoulders. It has mitten-like hands and dark pink rings around each wrist. In place of legs, it has a wispy tail and three gold rings: one large one around its lower body and one hanging freely on each of its horns.
Gar recognized the Pokemon as Hoopa in its Confined form.
He looks confused at the small mythical Pokémon before looking back at the DJ and telling him, "I don't know what surprises me more. The fact Bayo found a Hoopa or the fact he gave it to you of all people."
The DJ growls at his demeaning comment and hisses at him, "That's not all.", He then whistles again when a cloaked figure comes out holding a strange object.
It has a yellow ring at the base before coming to an open O-shape with six rings around it, three on each side. It is colored white at the base before splashing over to red halfway up. It then came up to a thin neck with a red cap that had a head shaped dir a stopper. The headpiece had two horns with golden rings and a ponytail with a ring at its base. The top of the ponytail is colored yellow. Gar recognized this as the Prison Bottle!
Gar gasped as he exclaimed, "No way! Is that-!"
The DJ smirked and confirmed before shouting, "It is. Open it!"
The hooded figure opened the bottle and a dark red cloud emerged and began to envelop Hoopa. Gar felt fear run up his spine and clambering into Girafarig he panickedly yelled, "Girafarig. Run. Run! RUN!"
Before they could witness the transformation, Girafarig burst out of the warehouse and went into a full gallop like a deer! Once they were a few yards away and already making it to the city, the roof of the warehouse burst open and Hoopa in its Unbound form soared into the sky with a mighty roar!
Hoopa Unbound is a large, bipedal Pokémon with six arms. It is mostly light blue with purple fur and hair. The ponytail on its head is larger and bushier and held in place by two golden rings. Its hair now covers its chin, where it forms a pointed beard, and the back of its neck. The horns are less curved and have spiky purple hair around the bases. There are three gold rings on each horn: two around the base and one around the middle. It has yellow eyes white sclerae, a pointed, dark gray nose, a small hole inside of the ring marking on its forehead, and prominent fangs in the back of its lower jaw. Similar to Hoopa Confined, its arms are disconnected and float next to its body. Instead of a small, gold spike the arms now have large, dark gray spikes and appear from holes along the sides of its body. Each arm has three fingers with dark gray claws, a gold ring around the wrist, and a gold ring around the base. Several tufts of purple fur surround its torso and a gold ring encircles a hole in the center of its chest. Another large gold ring encircles its waist and there are small tufts of fur poking out from underneath it. There is a purple stripe that widens at the knee down each leg and two gold rings around each ankle. The tips of its feet are gold and curl upward. Additionally, this form has a tail with a purple stripe along the top and an arrow-shaped tip.
Gar hoped they wouldn't be spotted, but he was very wrong as the Pokemon locked eyes on them and flew off in their direction! It only took the massive Pokemon seconds to catch up, but luckily they made it into the city and used the environment to their advantage!
Running into incoming traffic, bounding through crowds of people, hopping between lanes and past the open storefronts, jumping over signs and awnings, kicking back any object they could, and even making sharp turns into alleyways only to bound out a second later! But nothing seemed to deter the Pokémon! Hoopa shot out several of its arms through portals to grab them. Gar turned around and met the hands head-on!
Using his cybernetic exoskeleton augmented in the Fighting type hero suit, he was able to meet the fists with equal power! Though that didn't stop the pain he felt from each blow! With this combined, Girafarig managed to dodge each one….except for one. The last one came from behind and grabbed Girafarig from the back side, the wrong side. It quickly learned as the second head bit down hard on hand and Hoopa screamed in pain as the head refused to let go!
When it finally did pull away, losing a fingernail, Gar took out a new Pokeball and shouted, "Go Noivern!"
Noivern is a large, draconic Pokémon that resembles a bat. It is primarily black with a purple underbelly and greenish-turquoise wing membranes. It has a purple lower jaw; a large, red, V-shaped nose; two fang-like projections on its upper lip; yellow eyes; and a greenish-turquoise color between its eyes and nose. Its large, teardrop-shaped ears have alternating rings of blue-green and black on the interiors and resemble loudspeakers. Around its neck is a fluffy mane of white fur that is longer in the back. Its wings have three red claws on the middle joint and are divided into segments by two black wing fingers. On the back of the wing, the final segment is purple. Noivern's feet have two toes each and a red, claw-like growth on top of each toe. It has a long, whip-like tail with a blue-green underside and two spines near the tip.
The Draconic bat Pokemon flew towards the genie Pokemon, and Gar shouted, "Sonic Boom!"
Noivern let out a high-powered shriek from his ears right at the genie Pokemon and caused it to fall back from the impact alone! But it didn't keep it down long as it sent its fists through its portals and sent several punches straight at the bat dragon and Gar! Noivern was knocked out of the air and went tumbling while Gar took a direct blow to the face but stayed conscious.
Noivern quickly recovered as Hoopa closed the distance, so Gar commanded, "Dragon Fang!"
Draconic energy goes around the bat's fangs and it catches up in time to bite down on Hoopa's neck! This caused Hoopa to wildly thrash about to be freed, but Noivern refused to let go! This eventually caused the Pokemon to fly over Gar and Girafarig, meeting them right in their path!
Gar acted quickly and called out, "Psy Beam!"
Girafarig jumped toward Hoopa's pain-filled face and blasted it head-on with its attack! Although the attack didn't do any damage to it, the lights it produced blinded it and caused it to stumble on its counter. Hoopa crashed to the ground and after getting up and rubbing its eyes, it noticed how Noivern was no longer biting down on him. He was about to look around when he saw the headlights of a 16-wheeler barreling straight at him. Before the Pokemon could react, it was hit dead on and sent flying into a building!
The building cracked in and a dust cloud exploded as people came around to see what happened. Only for Hoopa to come out of the wreckage a few moments later, looking battered up but okay overall. It looked around at the frightened people, seeing how its target had escaped. Inna rage it roared into the night sky, causing the people to run in panic as it lifted off into the air and flew out to find its missing prey!
Meanwhile, in an alleyway, a large set of wings unfurled from the body of Noivern who was hiding himself with Girafarig and Gar in the darkness. Seeing their pursuer lose sight of them and fly off caused a sigh of relief to wash over all of them.
Gar wipes a trail of sweat from his face as he states, "Phew! That was too close. Let's get out here!"
The two Pokemon nodded with him, and Gar hopped back on Girafarig and they ran off with Noivern tailing behind. Always keeping its powerful ears open to make sure Hoopa did catch wind of them again.
Later
After a long ride back to the ground of UA and back to the now completed dormitory Gar slid off Girafarig's back and thanked her and Noivern for their help. After returning them to their Pokeballs he sighed with relief and stress at the night he had.
After stretching his arms he called for Rotom and asked the phone, "So did you get everything back there, Rotom."
Rotomo popped out and chipperly told him, "Sure did! Buzzt. Every last bit. I sent a live stream straight to the Cops. Buzzt. That fight ring will be no more by the end of the night."
"But that Unbound Hoopa is gonna be a problem.", Gar commented, feeling worried.
"I'm sure they can handle it. Buzzt. On the plus side, we know a bit more about Bayo's plan. Buzzt.", Rotom tried to assure him.
Gar thought it over for a bit and realized he was right. His training with the Police was going better than expected. They were handling every Pokemon-related Problem in the city and all others. They were so good that they were being called the heroes of Pokemon problems! Heroes only needed to hold off or restrain Pokemon long enough for the police to get there and take care of it. So a small army of skilled trainers should be able to take down one Hoopa. Especially if they manage to find the Prison Bottle, which he was sure they would.
But his smile fell at the second statement. He thought back to what the DJ told him and commented, "Yeah but it's not much."
"Progress is still progress. Buzzt.", Rotom told him with a cheer.
Gar smiled as he walked toward the door with Rotom and agreed, "Yeah, you're right.", Gar then stretched his arms while cracking his neck, and opening the door he complained, "Man I'm beat! I can't wait to-AH SHOTA!"
To his shock and horror, sitting at the kitchen island bar on a stool was Shota Aizawa who looked neutrally at him, though he could tell he wasn't pleased as he heard his voice.
"Hello Garfield.", he greeted Gar, not sounding happy at all.
Gar resisted the urge to gulp as he replied with a slight stammer, "Wha-What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be on patrol?"
"My patrol ended already.", Aizawa replied.
"Is it that late? Geeze, I lost track of time!", Gar exclaimed while looking at the clock which read 5:00 am.
"So.", Aizawa said quietly, making Gar stand erect and attention to him as he asked, "Where were you?"
"Oh you know….out.", Gar explained unconvincingly.
"Out where?"
"Walking."
"With you Pokémon."
"Who wouldn't."
"You look exhausted."
"I went to the city."
"You look nervous."
"You surprised me."
"You're wearing your hero outfit.", Aizawa pointed out his clothes.
"So are you!", Gar shot back.
"You're covered in dirt and bruises.", Aizawa pointed to his face.
"I….crashed.", Gar tried to defend himself. Only for Aizawa to finally narrowed his eyes at him and ask, "How much of this are you believing?"
"None of it.", Aizawa answered.
Seeing no way out, Gar finally admitted defeat and groaned, Okay fine! You got me. I was out gaining info on Bayo and his schemes. Happy?"
Aizawa sighs while rubbing his head and saying, "Garfield, you're not a hero."
"Ya don't have to tell me about it.", gar shot back with open arms, making it the understatement of the century. Gar drops his arms and assures him, "And besides, I'm the only one who can do this."
"The only one?", Aizawa asks incredulously.
Gar rubs his head, knowing his comment was taken the wrong way, so he explained further, "Look, you heroes are good at what you do. But you don't know Bayo.", Aizawa raises a skeptical eyebrow, and Gar huffs while telling him, "You don't know where to go, who to talk to, and how to talk to them. And after all, that, putting together what bread crumbs you have to form a slice from the loaf."
"Is that why you cut off those guys' fingers?", Aizawa inquired casually.
Gar's eyes widen at his question and he begins to question him before realizing, "How did-! Wait for a second….you-you've been following me!"
"A bit.", Aizawa shrugs.
Gar feels like he should be angry, but he just feels exhausted, so he replies, "I shouldn't be surprised."
"Even if you know what you're doing. You shouldn't be doing it alone.", Aizawa tells him.
Gar then walks past him, as he speaks, into the kitchen and into the fridge where he pulls out a Tupperware filled with leftovers. He puts the food onto two plates and throws both into the microwave. From there he pulls out two glasses and a bottle of wine he had hidden behind one of the cabinets. He pours two glasses of the white liquid and hands it to Aizawa who gladly accepts it.
Before he can take a drink, the microwave goes off and as Gar goes to pull out the food he tells the man, "Shota, I'm more than capable of handling myself. This ain't my first rodeo."
After handing the plate to Aizawa, the man corrects himself and states, "I'm not talking about safety. You need someone there to steer you when you veer off."
"If you are talking about the finger thing, then there was a method to my madness.", Gar tells him while spinning the wine around.
"Explain.", Aizawa prompts him.
Gar takes a sip and explains, "Firstly, I did my research. I staked that place out and found out what's what. I knew that guy had a Regeneration quirk long before I got there."
"And you couldn't have used a Psychic type to read his mind or control it?", Aizawa offers suspiciously while glaring at him.
After taking a mouth full of food, Gar says between chewing, "That's my second point. You may call it cruel, but I call it a mercy.", Aizawa looks on in confusion and confusion, but allows him to explain as he starts to pick at the food. Gar swallows and tells him, "Bayo is a forgiving person, I'll give him that. But even his well of forgiveness can run dry. Do you know what happened to the last person I tried that on?"
Aizawa looks at him for an answer, his fork only halfway to his mouth before Gar makes a cutting motion across his throat with his thumb and sticks his tongue out.
Aizawa's eyes widened at this and the only thing he could say was, "Wow."
Gar nods and agrees, "Yeah, wow. Having one's mind compromised is a bigger offense than just getting it forced out. Anyway, that guy could use that situation to gain sympathy with Bayo."
"So in a sick way, you-.", Aizawa thought aloud as Gar slurps down more food.
"Saved his life?", Gar finishes his question. He then takes a small sip from the wine and tells him, "Less evil, Shota. Lesser evil."
What he saw today did send shivers down his spine when he saw Gar of all people do it without hesitation, but after hearing how Bayo thought, it all made more sense. Gar did save that guy, even if it meant hurting him. And he did have a quirk that would allow him to come out of it with little issues. If he didn't have a Regeneration quirk, Gar probably would have chosen a different method.
He sighs and asks him, "So what have you gotten so far?"
"Not much, but it's more than expected.", Gar tells him and Rotom flies up to his finger, pulling up the info he had and reading it off, "According to what I've gathered, Bayo has a plan within a plan within another plan. No surprise there. He's trying to make both connections and money."
"Connections with who?", Aizawa interrupted, wondering what a mad child-like Bayo would want to be collapsing with others.
"Anyone. Thugs, goons, small-time gangs, underground fighting rings, the black market dealers, villains both great and small. Anyone he can either work with or use.", Gar explained with a chill in his voice. Eating and talking he read off, "Not only that, whoever shows loyalty to him, he shows them kindness in the form of Pokemon. I just had to escape that underground fighting ring with an Unbound Hoopa on my tail!"
"Sounds rough.", Aizawa tried to sympathize, not knowing what he meant, which Gar picked up on.
"He's got everything set up and ready to go. He's just waiting for something to happen.", Gar told him the last bit.
"What would that be?", Aizawa inquires, feeling his curiosity flare up with the impending answer.
Gar shrugs casually, replying, "No idea. But knowing Bayo, it's nothing good."
"I wanna help.", Aizawa suddenly states.
"Huh?", Gar croaked before taking a drink, saying, "Shota-."
"I'm not taking no for an answer.", Aizawa told him firmly.
Trying to talk him out of it, Gar argued, "You're a hero, Shota. You can't be running off with me to do my investigations."
"Correction, I'm an underground hero. Meaning I'm the freelancer of the hero world. I can do that. Also, if I'm with you, you won't get in any trouble with what you're doing.", Aizawa told him in a tone that left no room for discussion.
"The police are already on it. So I'm good on that front.", gar argued, but the look on Aizawa's face didn't go away, so he lamented and agreed saying, "Okay okay fine! Twist my arm why don't you? You can join me, but we do things how I say."
"You're the boss.", Aizawa agreed to the terms while sitting back and taking another bite of food.
"To taking down a mad child.", Gar said while holding up his wine.
"I'll drink to that.", Aizawa cheered as they clinked their glasses together.
Back at the Fighting Ring
The DJ, who had been hiding behind a shipping container throughout the night as the Police grabbed every person they could, waited for his fingers to grow back. But due to his stress, his fingers aren't even half-formed at this point. If any of his fingers had survived during their removal, he could've put them back on. But then again, he had nothing to grab or hold them with.
As he ran around trying to stay hidden he cursed to himself, "Dammit! Dammit! Everything gone to shit! shit!", he finally found a new hiding spot far away, and after backing towards a wall he said to himself, "If the boss ever finds out, he's gonna-!"
"I'm gonna what?", the voice of Bayo asked from behind him.
The DJ jumped with a scream while turning around to see Bayo walking through the wall with his admin, Eclipse. And with a stutter, he asks, "AH! B-Boss B-Bayo! W-W-W-What are you doing here?!"
"I was in the neighborhood, and decided to pop in and say…boo! I just wanted to see how my favorite errand boy was doing.", Bayo said with a sickly sweet tone, clearly not happy.
The DJ threw himself on the floor and pleaded, "Please forgive me! I'm so sorry! It all happened so fast I didn't know what to do!"
"And just what happened here?", Bayo asked while looking back at the chaos being taken over by the Police.
The DJ looked up, tears in his angry expression as he explained, "T-That guy you always talk about, Garfield, he came here. Challenge our best guy, and beat him with some tiny two-headed giraffe!"
"That sounds like Gar-Gar.", Bayo chuckled.
"And-And then he forced me to reveal all I knew about you! He used that thing to bite off all my fingers!", He sobbed while holding up his fingerless hands.
Eclipse whistles at Gar's handy work, while Bayo rushes over, and holding up the DJ's face he cooed, "Oh! You poor poor thing. It must be impossible for you to scratch yourself."
"I beg of you! Forgive me! Forgive me!", The DJ begs him.
Bayo strokes his head while cupping his cheek and tells him, "Oh you poor creature. Of course, I forgive you. It must've been so horrible to go through."
"R-Really?", The DJ asks through sniffles before feeling something dark and cold grip his heart.
Bayo then grabbed his face and head roughly, his felt fingers turning into dagger-like talons as he said in a dangerous tone, "But! If you ever fail as badly as today. Let's just say, there isn't going to be a "next time", understand?", the DJ nods rapidly and Bayo smiles behind his mask while petting him on the head and telling him, "Good boy."
The moment Bayo turns away from the man, black tendrils grab him and drag him away into the darkness! Bayo goes back to Eclipse and walks bride him down the oceanside pier.
"So Garfield is going around being nosey for you again. How troublesome.", Eclipse groans while tipping his hat down.
Bayo unzips his mask zipper mouth and licks his lips in anticipation while saying, "I'd say it's quite the opposite. It's juuuust as I predicted. Gar will start trying to search for breadcrumbs on my plan, and I'm gonna give it to him."
Eclipse lifts his hat and says with a smile, "Your mind truly is a wonder."
"Thank you. Now to business.", Bayo chirps before calling out, "Oh Rapide!"
A few seconds later and a blur runs towards them before stopping right at Bayo's feet. The object that came barreling at them was a young man around Gar's age. He was tall, and lean, yet had a light build to him. His Team Freak outfit had been worn so badly that whoever he worked under was impossible to tell. The only thing that remained was the large purple F on his chest. His hair was black with golden streaks, and his eyes were also golden. In addition, he looked like a Garchomp; his hair was made up like their side head crests, his teeth were sharp, blade fins emerged from his wrists, a shark fin on his back, a small fin tail, and his legs were digitigrade with three toes with claws.
The young man brought his head up from his kneeling position and looked to Bayo like a god and answered, "Yes my lord."
Bayo rolled his eyes and bonked him on the head while scolding him, "What did I tell you about calling me, "Lord". I'm not your Lord, I'm your boss."
"Yes boss.", Rapide replied.
Bayo smiles and tells him in a serious tone, "Better! Anyhow, your final testing is coming up soon! Very very soon! You've done well in making it past all obstacles I've set before you, but this last one is a doozy!"
"I won't fail! I'll subvert your expectations! I'll prove I can become an Admin of Team Freak!", Rapide exclaims with sparkles in his eyes.
"I sure hope you do. I looked forward to seeing your resolve once more.", he tells the young man before he leaves just as fast as he came. Bayo then looked out into the city far away, smiling darkly while drumming his fingers together he said, "The plan is all coming together. All we have to do now is wait."
The Next Morning
Aizawa and Gar: *Wake up with a start!*
Aizawa: Holy crap I'm late!
Aizawa: Wait…..I'm not a student. *falls asleep*
Aizawa: *wakes up* I'M A TEACHER!
Gar: SHOTA! It's Saturday, so stop yelling.
Aizawa: What happened last night?
Gar: We started drinking.
Aizawa: And?
Gar: We got drunk.
Aizawa: Did we do anything else?
Gar: Most likely.
Aizawa: Did we do something stupid?
Gar: Also most likely.
Aizawa:...
Aizawa: Did we kiss?
Gar: …..
Gar: I'm gonna check Rotom.
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