Tamer Gothic

Part 10

Team Rocket Base – Kanto Region.

Inside the security office four members of Team Rocket saw that things were quickly getting out of hand. Despite initially outnumbering the intruders Team Rocket's losses were growing by the second. Soon the numbers would be down to the point where the crooks would be outnumbered by the Drow-Zee Pokégirls and the Hunters.

In desperation, the two members of Team Rocket left the office and opened fire upon their nearest enemies. Who just happened to be two Tamers.

The light elemental pistols being used by the Rockets had bullets charged with Infernal energy, which was a rarity because until a few years ago nobody had been able to figure out how to do that.

Infernal elemental charged bullets were lethal enough however they did extra damage against those who are Good as opposed to Evil. Just like an electric elemental charged bullet did extra damage to water type pokegirls.

However while the two Tamers getting shot at (Thomas and Gothic) were heroes in the eyes of many, they were not exactly candidates for sainthood they were more on the grey side of things. Plus Thomas was wearing kevlar body armour were as Gothic had a protection spell on his jacket which was the better defence right now as the man who had sold him the coats had a thing about Infernal types and he never sold anything that offered magical protection unless that protection was very effective against Infernals and Infernal elemental attacks.

However none of that didn't actually mattered right now as because Gothic's Blood Gift was an even better defence and it actually went as far as to effect his allies. In this case Tamer Gothic's good luck caused the Rockets fire wildly, missing their marks.

Unfortunately for the members of Team Rocket, Tamer Gothic'ss Good Luck Blood Gift was a strong one. Thomas and he did not miss, and they had elemental bullets as projectiles were charged with Celestial energy which did extra damage to not only demonic pokegirls but all evil doers, and while not every Rocket was a monster none of them were nice people, so the elemental charges finished them off long before they could bleed to death. Which was a kindness as bleeding out from gun shot wound is not a pleasant way to die.

Back inside the office the two Rockets who hadn't left to fight locked the door and kept their eyes on the action. Looking at the monitors they saw two more Pokégirls of theirs fall and they quickly realized that things were going from bad to worse.

The Rockets and their pokes who were still fighting would not hold out for long as there were over thirty Drow-Zee attacking the base, and the harems of seven hunters as well. To make things worse the hunters themselves were joining in and they didn't go out of their way to spare human lives like their pokes did.

Still all the Rockets knew that they had to do their best. They couldn't afford to beaten as Team Rocket might not recover from losing another base, other heroes in the past had dealt the criminal organization many blows and this attack could be the coffin nail that finished the group off. Plus none of them wanted to go back to Giovanni and report a complete and utter failure yet again, as he would do far worse than kill them.

To that end, they continued to fight, hoping that Giovanni would send some reinforcements to deal with the hunters and their allies before they were completely overrun.

(Line Break)

Team Rocket Base – Somewhere In The Crimson League

Inside Team Rocket's League headquarters, Giovanni sat in his office, waiting for the inevitable to occur. He studied the various reports coming in from the Kanto Region base and saw that Team Rocket was perhaps entering it's final days.

For decades now good guys had rumbled with his organization, a few had actually killed him, never knowing that these were just clones of the original who had died many years ago. But despite the fact that the big boss always lived on these incidents did weaken Team Rocket.

Trauma Team had surpassed his organised crime syndicate, and their leadership wouldn't rest until Team Rocket was just a footnote in the history books that had yet to be written. Giovanni had so far been successful in holding on his diminished legacy, but this attack while not that damaging would only encourage others and any reprisals would only begin a war with the Hunter's Guild. The Hunters knew this otherwise they never would have been this bold.

However those were concerns for later for now Giovanni had focus on the present. Reports were painting a bleak picture for that base and its personal, and what worried the big boss was that this might only be the start. He imagined that more attacks might soon follow. He worried about such things because he didn't know that Jessie and James had successful captured a Dark Lady who belonged to one of the Tamers attacking the base. That was in fact the real reason for this assault.

In Giovanni's defence no one really thought those two idiots could do anything right, the only reason they were even in Team Rocket was because they gave a lot people the impression that Team Rocket wasn't the evil it truly was, and also Jessie and James were related to the original Giovanni, but not that closely related to each other it was worth noting, and the clones carried a soft spot for the two.

Had Giovanni known the truth he would not have opened his a drawer and pulled out an old slugthrower. He cocked the gun to chamber a round and then released the magazine. He caught the magazine and loaded a single bullet in to replace the already chambered round. He then put the magazine back in the gun and waited.

This wasn't the first time a Giovanni had killed himself. If he was dead no one would come after the newest clone and in a few years a new big boss would rebuild the group as best he could. People never figured out that all the Giovannis were technically the same person.

This was partly why Team Rocket never went after the heroes who tried to topple the criminal empire, and so often nearly succeeded, it was hard to convince people you were dead if you went after the person who killed you. Plus killing heroes created martyrs and drew attention no Giovanni wanted while he was trying to rebuild Team Rocket.

However he wasn't going to kill himself just yet. Despite the fact that he knew that there was no way that the sentries would be able to stop the Hunters and their allies if they figured out how to use to the teleporter pads that linked every base. There was only a small chance that the Hunters would as the pads were in the basement hidden behind a false wall, but Giovanni wasn't willing to bet on the Hunters not figuring out. The fact that nothing bad had been reported going on in this base only went to show him that either the teleporter pad hadn't yet or the Hunters were just being cautious.

Only time would tell and he was willing to wait. He might never really die but this Giovanni had no desire to replaced with a clone just yet.

(Line Break)

Team Rocket Base – Kanto Region.

Just outside of the boss's office, waited Jessie, James, and their Candy Cat mascot Meowth, as the boss packed his bags. If he left his post Giovanni would kill the fat man, but he could just disappear off to the distant Orange League and hope for the best.

"New orders from Giovanni," he said casually to Jessie and James as he left his office "Now listen the Drow-Zee have broken through our lines and the Hunters are there way here. You three are to remain here and intercept any intruders. Do not let them get into my office".

"Understood," the trio replied in unison, saluting him.

The fat boss then made his way to the elevator that would take him down to the basement were his personal Zeppelin, that should be ready to take off any moment now, was waiting for him.

"What's your status?" the regional boss asked over the radio

The sounds of battle came through the radio as someone replied from the security office.

"We're getting our rears handed to us, sir. There's no way we'll hold out against the Hunters and their Pokégirls. Butch and Cassidy have lost all of their Pokégirls and they've made a run for it"

The regional boss sighed as the elevator door finally closed. He should still have time to get away. However what he didn't know was that Jessie, James and their mascot were now running down the stairs at warp speed to where their hot air balloon was waiting.

"Who are you fighting?" the regional boss demanded to know.

There were a lot of Hunters in the League, some were far more dangerous than others.

"It's the fucking Winchesters!" the grunt reported "And they've got friends We'll never hold them back!"

The boss man quickly considered something before asking another question.

"Did you ID anyone else?"

"Yeah two other Hunters called Gothic and Thomas are trying to into the security office. They've already killed half my group!".

The fat man didn't know any Hunters called Thomas, but it was a common enough name. However Gothic was the Tamer he'd stolen the Dark Lady from. That had come back to bite him the ass. The only upside was that the powerful Infernal now worked for him. A session of rape and torture, followed a memory wipe, and then more rape and torture had brought the Dark Lady under his control. She would be his last line of defence.

"I have orders from Giovanni" the man said as the elevator came to stop "Run and once you're safely away, stand by and await further orders".

This base was lost, they all knew that but the big boss would need as many men as possible to rebuild what had been lost.

"Understood, sir, and thank you," came the response from the Rockets

As the doors open the regional boss saw his death. She looked rather normal, aside from the blue highlights in her hair and the fact that she was wearing a red body suit.

"Tell me where Giovanni is" the scary pokegirl commanded.

The fat man spilled his guts, both figuratively and literally.

(Line Break)

Upon seeing Butch, and Cassidy retreat, Dean smiled.

The Drow-Zee had broken into smaller teams for this assault so unless there was an exit the Hunters didn't know about the crooks were simply running from one danger right into the arms of another.

"I saw Butch and Cassidy. They're heading deep into their base" Jo called out.

Butch and Cassidy were worth far more than losers like Jessie and James, the bounty for taking them alive would be better, but dead was okay with him. Sam was more merciful then his older brother, but he was backing up Bobby as they tried to free trapped pokes from some cells.

"We have to follow them!" Dean declared as they rushed after the fleeing Rockets "If we can pin them between us and those Drow-Zee then they're done for".

Jo quickly ran after her on and off again boyfriend as he once more risked death just to get the job done.

(Line Break)

Gothic and Thomas were still trying to get into the security office. It was important that they did as if they didn't shut it down then the enemy would stayed coordinated. But sadly neither of them had a pokegirl nearby who could take down the door as their harms were spread out in an effort to secure this entire floor.

"Where's Babs when you need here?" Gothic complained as he once more tried to batter down the door to the security "she'd have this thing down in no time".

"And it would funny" Thomas added.

Tamer Gothic had been thinking more along with lines of her using a chainsaw, which would be more cool than funny. and it appeared that someone else that idea too.

"Stand aside boys!" a voice shouted out.

Officially Dash J Williams was retired from the hunting business, but everyone in that line of work knew that you never really quit the job, plus he was getting paid to do this and if that wasn't enough his share of bounties would triple his profits for this month. Besides some of his most valued customers were here and Dash knew that his store would suffer if they all died.

For this adventure Dash had replaced his metal hand with one of his stores chainsaws, but this was no ordinary chainsaw, it had been improved by magic thanks to the effort his very skilled Enchantress who could work wonders with her spells. A good example of this was when Dash's steel chainsaw began to cut through the thick steel door that bared his path.

Moments later when he inside the office, an old guard and a kid dropped to their knees and begged for their lives. Dash was crazy, but he wasn't without a heart so rather than kill them he just took them hostage with his beloved boomstick and sent the younger hunters on their way.

The two guards only suffered a few minor bruises and a couple of broken bones.

(Line Break)

Team Rocket Base – Somewhere In The Crimson League

Meanwhile, in the League headquarters' command center, the base's Chief of Security, was coordinating the defense of Team Rocket's most secure base.

He was quick to notice that the cameras in the central lobby had gone down. Seconds before that had happened a female figure in a red body suit had appeared from no where. The Chief had no idea who she was, but he could smell trouble a mile off and the intruder stank.

"Initiate a base-wide Security Alert. Then send some security officers down to the lobby to investigate and report back on the situation" the Chief ordered "I want that area secured ASAP".

Without delay the Chief's orders were followed, but it was already too late. More cameras were going down and guards were reporting an intruder just seconds before they stopped reporting altogether.

Something had come to destroy the leadership of Team Rocket, and if she was powerful as her actions suggested then they were all screwed.

"Get me Giovanni now!" the head of security commanded.

"Yes sir," the technician replied as he typed in a series of commands on his console.

On a console screen, an image of Giovanni appeared.

"What is it?" Giovanni demanded to know.

The big bosses face was mostly bathed in shadow but the fear in his voice could not be so easily hidden.

"Sir, as of a few moments ago Cameras One and Two went down in the lobby" the chief answered. "I have sent security forces to investigate the situation, but were losing more cameras and some of my guards aren't reporting in".

The big boss took no time to issue new orders

"Everyone is to engage this intruder, and I mean everyone. All the guards and their pokegirls".

There wasn't much change of them winning, but if there was than a massive and overwhelming assault was the way.

"Understood," the Chief replied.

He then cut the line and went about alerting security to go to the lobby so they could intercept this unknown being.

(Line Break)

Back in the lobby, Illyria stood still for a moment and then closed her eyes, she felt her power and smiled.

An elevator opened and a Rocket officer in a black uniform led a group of lower ranking crooks into the lobby. They let lose some pokegirls just as Illyria waved a hand and slow time down for everyone in the area but her.

Had anyone been watching they would have a seen a blur and then a load of living people become dead people in less then a second.

Before the last body hit the floor Illyria was again on the move. Soon there were two harems of pokegirls launching attacks against Illyria. But sadly for them they were facing a Legendary, not the strongest of that elite group, but she hardly the weakest either.

Time slowed once again and more dead bodies hit the ground. Each had been killed in a series of clean moves. Necks were snapped, spines were broken and in one case the horn of one pokegirl had been broken off and them rammed into the eye of its owner. Illyria kept the other horn, it would make a nice trophy.

(Line Break)

Back in his office, Giovanni heard the sounds of battle outside. Knowing that the time had come he rose from his desk. He went over to a bookcase and looked it over for a few moments. He soon found the book he'd been looking for and pulled it out. As he did, a secret panel retracted from the wall and then opened.

A special keyboard and screen appeared form the wall next to the book case, and the big boss typed in the self destruct code. Only this base had one as he'd had trouble getting his hands on even a small nuclear device, but the denotation should take care of the entity that was currently butchering his personal guard. And if it did well there would be nothing left to connect this base to any other.

Giovanni then sat down at his desk, had a final drink of fine scotch, and blew his own brains out. He'd hadn't been afraid to die because he knew the second he did another clone somewhere would wake up and take over like nothing had happened. As long a Giovanni existed so would Team Rocket, they were immortal.

(Line Break)

Team Rocket Base – Kanto Region.

The fighting was finally over and nearly everyone had survived. No humans on my side had been killed, but four Drow-Zee were dead. Which given their skills as a strike force was a testament to just how tough a nut this place had been to crack. Also Sam had lost his Sayjin who had gotten a little cocky during a fight and had paid the price.

Everyone else was battered and bruised, no one had escaped injury, even me and with Good Luck Blood Gift that was saying something. Thankfully for everyone I'd kept Branwen out of the fighting so my White Mage had a lot of MP left over for healing spells.

Since I could walk I had taken the time to check the place over so as to make sure that there had been no Rockets hiding anywhere. Most of them were either dead or locked in the very cells they'd been using to hold pokes. There they would wait until the League Defence Force came to claim them and then hauled them off to prison.

Not that there was any need for me to do this. The Drow-Zee had already swept the base clean before leaving, no doubt taking some spoils of war as well, but I was going to check again because it was a good way of distracting myself from the fact that I had killed a human being.

I'd shot someone and now they were dead. It helped that it had been in self defence and the person I killed was a criminal, but killing a member of your own species is not something you just put aside.

In effort to keep distracting myself I then looked over the cells again. Some of those locked up pokes were too dangerous set free, others however were harmless and had already been let out of their cells.

I knew this as Jo was attempting to comfort a poor pokewoman. They had covered her in a big blanket and were trying to get her to drink down some water. Which was good because the tears and the lactation the poor poke must be dehydrated.

"I miss my children so much" a Mootit was saying as I passed by "Becky must be a woman by now, and Jayden's always getting into trouble".

Hearing that second name made me stop walking and then turn around. Becky was a common enough name, but Jayden was not.

"Do you have any more children?" I asked.

When she told me had another son I just had to find out more, because that name matched too.

"And is their father living in Saffron City?" I inquired.

The Mootit almost stood up, and would have if not for the fact that Jo told her not too.

"How... how.. do you know that?" the upset pokewoman managed to say.

"Yeah how do you know?" Jo also asked.

"Nikita's real name is Rebecca" I quickly explained "She has a brother named Jayden, and she's currently visiting her Dad in Saffron City".

Well now I knew where I was going next. Hopefully I had enough time to get to Saffron City and then to Coast City before the ship left.

Also while it wouldn't be the best time to do it. I really did need to introduce Illyria to Nikita. I might as well do while she was grateful for me bringing her mother back home. Hopefully the gratitude would mean that she would kick me in the nuts as I deserved.