Episode 5: Cipher's Zombie Plan P2
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon, I do own Hotaru, Darnel, and Ashley.
Ashley, Darnel and Hotaru had purposely waited till the police had left Ashley's house to exit out and search for their own clues. For Hotaru this was a mission she wasn't about to screw up. Almost all of the citizens of Manassas were routed and captured by Cipher. While the trio didn't know where exactly the captives were taken too, they knew all too well it didn't benefit Hotaru, not one bit. They all knew Cipher was up to something and as always it was to eliminate Hotaru. So whatever Cipher wanted with the captives, it was for their gain and to kill off Hotaru somehow. Hotaru had no idea what that reason was or what purpose. Ardos carefully watches the trio from a complete safe distance seeing Hotaru look around the areas looking for clues. Six Cipher Pions were walking towards him and he lifted his hand towards them "Don't come near me as if you know who I am" he warned them in a low whisper.
"But we do know you" a soldier told him.
"Preciously my point" Ardos told him "Sure I'm working alongside Cipher but my part of the plan involves me spying on our target, and giving her ideas onto where to go next. In other words I'm the one that's supposed to lead her into a trap in secret. If she sees you all around me, my cover is blown and at the moment I don't want that...Now scram back to Erdos and wait his orders!"
The six Cipher Soldiers went back to wait for Erdos's orders. Ardos watches Hotaru look to where Cipher could've set up their makeshift mobile command center. It was right at that area where Hotaru would see how Cipher pulled it off.
"Looks like they stopped here" Ashley told Hotaru.
"Yes" Hotaru admitted looking at the many different ways Cipher could've marched off their soldiers to get so many people.
"Looks like they had set up camp for the night" Darnel said spotting some remains of a smoldering fire.
"Which would make sense why no one saw them coming to rout so many people" Hotaru said "Now we just have to figure out where Cipher has taken the captives."
"If only we had a dog" Ashley muttered "A dog would be able to pick up Cipher's scent and hey I found a pink comb!"
"Loveria's comb none the less" Hotaru muttered seeing the comb then she caught sight of Darnel and Ashley looking at her "What?!"
"Is it possible that you have a dog transformation?"
"Lucario is the closest to a dog" Hotaru admitted "But I'd rather not use it at the moment as it's badly injured, let it recover."
Ardos watches in the shadows hating to aide Hotaru in the mission but perhaps...He could lure Hotaru to meet the Zombie horde first...That was what he'd have to do. He took out a Pokeball "Come on out Arcanine"
A tall orange, with black striped dog appeared out of a Pokeball "Arcanine!"
Ardos pets it putting a leash on the Pokemon then spoke to it as if it were his pet "Come on Stripes. We're going to meet my students."
The Arcanine nods walking alongside it's master as if it were his pet.
Ashley, Darnel and Hotaru were still looking for clues when they saw Ardos and Arcanine approaching.
"Mr. Ardos sir?" Hotaru asked shocked to see her teacher then she saw the Arcanine "Whose this?"
"This is Stripes" Ardos said "My pet. Heard nearly everyone else got caught by those strange people from last night, so my pet and I came out to see if we could assist anyone."
"Arcanine!" the Arcanine barked.
"Darnel, Hotaru and I were going to discover where those people took the others" Ashley said "But we need a dog's nose to help."
Ardos nodded "Dogs do have a better sense of smell, tell you what, I'll lend Stripes to you three and he'll help you."
Ardos pets his Arcanine's head "Won't you boy?"
The Arcanine nods obeying Ardos's orders sitting down obedient like.
"You sure?" Hotaru asked him "That's so generous of you."
"I'm sure" Ardos told them "I'll stay around here in the meantime."
"Thank you sir!" Hotaru said eagerly taking the leash from Ardos "Ashley, pick up that comb and let Stripes smell it."
"Okay!" Ashley said picking up the comb "Already one step ahead of you Hotaru!"
She lets the Arcanine smell the comb and after receiving a secret nod to do help Hotaru out on it the Arcanine gets up barking and smelling the ground. The trio went off following Arcanine with Ardos waiting till the trio was out of sight dialing to his brother " Erdos...Hope you have some zombies because Hotaru is on her way towards your location and she'll reach it quickly thanks to me having to lend my Arcanine to help her."
"Good job Ardos!" Erdos replied "As of matter of fact we do have some zombies ready."
"Good then better start sending them."
Intro- Latias's voice- Three years ago, my brother Latios and I made our escape from Cipher taking the Rototrix with us. For three years we had avoided being captured and turned into Shadow Pokemon as well as keeping the Rototrix safe from Cipher whom were making plans to use it for their own evil needs. Three years later, Cipher has remerged selling Shadow Pokemon to Earth in a bid to take over the universe. Luckily my brother and I managed to save a girl in need and gave her the Rototrix a device that transforms the wielder into a Pokegirl or Pokeboy of 14 different types of Pokemon. Now she has the difficult task in not defeating Cipher but purifying all of the Shadow Pokemon. Hotaru certainly has a difficult task to do but she's the only chance two worlds have and I have a feeling, Hotarumon 14 is going to stop Cipher's plans once and for all.
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Inside the secret location of the temporary location where Cipher was holding the captives, Erdos turned to some of the captives whom were in a zombie like stance. He smirked and looked at the Shadow Hypno. So far the plan was working. Now was the time to terrify Hotaru. If she wanted to save the captives she was going to have to fight them as zombies. Plus with the captives now in a zombie state even a bite could be fatal to Hotaru and turn her. He nods towards the zombies "Head out! Hotaru is on her way here so terrify her or kill her before she reaches this place."
The hypnotized people that were now acting like zombies started to head out in massive numbers towards Ashley, Darnel and Hotaru. All Erdos had to do was sit back and see if this zombie plan would work. It should for one reason, not even a hero would want to harm innocent people and that's exactly what these captives were, even if they were hypnotized to act like zombies, they were still innocent people.
Ashley, Darnel were following Hotaru whom was the one hold Stripe's leash. As they were getting to a clearing. Stripes put it's nose to the ground sniffing still able to take Loveria's scent. However Hotaru soon stopped. Ashley and Darnel caught up wondering why Hotaru had paused. When they got towards Hotaru, they all gasped to see people in a zombie like state. Hotaru literally watches this freezing up even as this reminded her of a late night terrifying zombie movie she saw once when she was living in Japan. What Hotaru didn't know at the moment was that the people were Hypnotized to act like this. A shiver of fear ran down Hotaru's spine as she was terrified of zombies.
"Zombies?" Ashley asked in disbelief.
"And so many of them" Darnel said "I count nearly almost the entire city, at least half."
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME FEEL BETTER!" Hotaru shouted.
"You must not like zombies" Ashley guessed.
"Ever sense I accidentally saw that zombie movie when I was still living in Japan...Yes!"
"They still look like ordinary people too" Darnel said.
"Which makes me even more uncomfortable" Hotaru muttered watching as the zombies noticed her and came at them.
Arcanine barks seeing the zombies and Hotaru sighed "Looks like we must fight them."
She checks out her Rototrix "But which to use."
She smiled seeing Sylveon "Of course you!"
She slaps the Rototrix down and white light surrounded her with her transformation beginning after losing her clothes and hair. White fur, sprouts pink hair with Sylveon's pink ears filled with a blue color inside the ears, she gain all of Sylveon's ribbons with two wrapping around her head with a bowtie attaching to her head, the ribbons are blue and pink at the end, she also gains another two ribbons attached in a bowtie around her neck, grows a pink Sylveon tail, along with pink hands and pink feet when it ended Hotaru was "Sylveon!"
She rushes forward the zombies but the mass numbers gave her a freight as she saw they still looked mostly human "What do we do?" she asked Ashley and Darnel "They seem normal!"
Hotaru uses her ribbons on the zombies to hold them back.
"Plus we don't want to hurt them!" Ashley admitted
"EVEN MORE OF A PROBLEM!" Hotaru agreed with that statement "I can't be harming them!"
She attempted to use her ribbons to reach to grab something "And my ribbons are too short to get us to safety if we need to do so!"
Ashley gathers in magic in her hands "Perhaps I can slow them down!"
"Well we better think of something..." Darnel said "Otherwise we're in trouble!"
"I got an idea" Hotaru muttered "Let's hope it does something. Ashley...Follow my lead!"
"Right!" Ashley said.
Hotaru watches the human zombies approach "I don't want to harm them but I also don't want them to harm us ether!"
Her knees were visibly shaking. She was deadly afraid of Zombies but deep down in her heart she knew she had to try to do something to buy them time. Her Sylveon form had the ability known as Cute Charm which basically made any male fall in love with her, in Pokemon terms they might not advance or attack...That was half of the genders of the zombie horde she was facing. She also had a second option the move Attract which like her Cute Charm could cause the opponent to fall in love with her again, and this time it was safer. Hotaru didn't want to feel a bite from a zombie. She knew what would happen if she had, she possibly could be turned into a Zombie as well. She closes her eyes and uses Double Team to clone herself then she winked all sexy like using the move Attract. Hearts seemed to have swarmed around her and her clones making their way to the Zombie horde.
"Attracting them Hotaru?" Ashley asked "What good will it do us?"
"Yeah" Darnel said "Especially since only half of the zombies are male..."
"All part of the plan" Hotaru told them "If all goes well, the men will not attack us!"
"But what of the females!" Ashley asked.
"Plus...We don't know if attraction works the same way on humans as it does on Pokemon!" Darnel said.
"Relax!" Hotaru told them confident that her plan will work "and have faith in me! Ashley be prepared to slow down the other half with a spell!"
"Well...Okay...All I got right now is a slowing ice spell."
"That can work! Get ready to cast it!"
"Now I'm starting to see it" Darnel said "Using Attract hoping to stop the males from advancing, then using Ashley's spell to slow down or freeze them to...Get away?"
Hotaru blushes "YEP! That's the plan...Stop them from advancing...Freeze them...THEN SCRAM!"
Ashley and Darnel sweat dropped if this was Hotaru's reaction into dealing with Zombies a fear she had in her heart then how would they save everyone that Cipher got? Still retreating was a good option it got them to think strategically on what their next move was to do and to what to expect.
Hotaru's Attract hit the male zombies briefly stopping them in their tracks. Hotaru breathes with relief briefly that part worked. Ashley had brought up her energies focusing it in the palms of her hands chanting out "I call upon the forces of nature of ice and wind to bring upon the storm of the century...Blizzard Winds!"
Ashley would then open her palms and push out at the approaching female zombies. Blizzard winds and ice were sent out in a wave striking the zombies whom turned blue and briefly stopped them in their tracks.
"While I'll be it worked" Darnel said.
"It won't hold them for long" Hotaru said recalling that Ashley's spell was to slow their enemies down or freeze some but no real harm "Now let's RUN AWAY!"
Ashley, and Darnel turned to run to get to a safe place, and Hotaru turned her back to run as well but something caught her eye. Some of the male zombies were still advancing but this time, instead of Hotaru's brains on the menu or in their eyes, Hotaru could see them having hearts in their eyes. Hotaru began having a bad feeling as if her Attract attack had backfired "Uh-oh"
Ashley and Darnel turned "What's wrong?"
Hotaru broke into a run "DON'T JUST STAND THERE! RRRRUUUUNNNN!"
She quickly speed off with the male zombies quickly in pursuit of only her leaving Ashley and Darnel unharmed and both sweat dropped again seeing this with Hotaru screaming her head off as she's being chased.
"Can't say we tried to warn her..." Ashley muttered to Darnel.
"I did...I tried to tell her that Attract may work on male Pokemon but we had no idea what it did on humans or zombies...Too me seeing this make sense but it doesn't make it right."
"I wonder what they'll do to her instead" Ashley said.
As if Hotaru heard she shouted over the mating groans of the male zombies "NOOO! I WILL NOT ACCEPT A ZOMBIE'S BABY!"
Ashley face palmed muttering "I had to wonder about that...And that is creepy to think about!"
Darnel turned seeing the female zombies "We should try to help Hotaru out...She doesn't deserved to be chased like that. Those male humans might be zombies but once freed...They might regret doing our friend."
"If they can catch her" Ashley said seeing Hotaru seemingly run faster than she's ever run before.
The two go off to help their friend with Stripes secretly wandering off to help unthaw the female zombies.
Ashley, and Darnel ran towards Hotaru looking for a way to get the zombie's attention. Sadly they would find that Hotaru had been cornered and up in a tree. Apparently in her fear of zombies to try to get away, she had thought that a tree would be the safest place. She was even on the tallest tree limb with a limb so small she could barely sit on it. Luckily her ribbons were wrapped around the tree branch to keep her balanced on it.
Ashley and Darnel saw Hotaru's pink feet from their position but this was all they could see of Hotaru as the leaves covered her white fur.
"At least she's found someplace the zombies aren't able to get up successfully" Ashley muttered.
They might not have been able to see all of Hotaru except for her feet but Hotaru could see them "DO SOMETHING TO HELP ME GUYS!"
She saw some zombies climbing the tree "AND QUICKLY!"
Ashley looks up wondering what she could do. Darnel was also thinking the same thing. Now the zombies were still slow but considering that Hotaru was on the tallest branch and it was the only branch in that area. If the zombies managed to climb up the tree to that limb or even touch one of Hotaru's feet, she might start panicking even more.
Hotaru was indeed in deep panic mode up in a tree shivering with freight. The male zombies made it perfectly clear what they wanted from her. She didn't want that not ONE bit. She watches as two male zombies came close to her location she raised a ribbon "BACK!"
Out of pure freight she whipped out at them slapping them in the wrists. With surprise the two males let go and plummet onto the others waiting below.
Hotaru winces seeing this as she admits to them "SORRY!"
In her mind at least she wasn't grabbed and taken down to be raped. That was until she nearly forgot about more female ones approaching with axes. THUMP! Hotaru heard something hitting the tree trunk. She looks down and saw female zombies those that Ashley, Darnel and Hotaru herself hadn't encountered before and they were using their axes "Normal brain eating zombies are one thing but ones with working brains...Even worse!"
Darnel turns to Ashley "Oh-nuts! Hotaru's gonna get herself captured or killed if we don't do something!"
"I have a plan" Ashley said "We need do distract them but only to allow Hotaru to get away. There's another tree so once those female ones cut that tree down hopefully she can leap to the other tree and climb down it in our distraction."
"Yes, so how are we going to distract them?"
Barking sounded behind the two and they turned seeing Ardos's Arcanine and the two smiled. Use the dog. As if sensing what the two were going to ask it Stripes nodded. It barks charging the zombie horde breathing it's fire at the zombies. This worked perfectly, most of the zombies turned to see the giant dog Pokemon coming at them with Ashley and Darnel riding it. Three female ones continued to cut the tree Hotaru was on down. Hotaru then saw the tree Ashley saw and made a quick break for it...SNAP! The female zombies had succeeded it cutting the tree down but Hotaru had made the jump to the second tree and quickly slipped off after her friends somehow making her way to the Arcanine's back and sitting on it. The Arcanine was fast and was able to get them to a safe place.
"That went well" Ashley told Hotaru.
"Everything backfired" Hotaru muttered changing back to normal her heart was still pounding "I almost got raped by zombies!"
Stripes looks around as if sensing danger still.
"It won't be long before those zombies come here looking for us." Darnel admitted to Hotaru
"And your Attract Spell should wear off now that you aren't Sylveon" Ashley said.
"That's a plus."
"But we know what the enemy has done to the captives" Ashley told Hotaru.
"Correct, they turned them into zombies!" Hotaru said she grips her hands "And my mom and dad are captives too."
"But we haven't seen them yet in that horde" Darnel told her "So that must mean they haven't been converted or somehow managed to escape."
This gave Hotaru hope but the fear that she'd have to go against zombies again startled her. Ashley would bring up the next question "That's good for Hotaru to know that. Sadly we still have to fight against that horde and we can't harm them as they aren't real zombies!"
Hotaru agreed "They are hypnotized."
"So how do we wake them?" Ashley asked.
"Defeating whatever hypnotized them" Darnel said he turned to Hotaru "You're going to have to get over your fears Hotaru."
"Don't you realize ONE bite is all it takes for us to become a zombie?!"
"They aren't real zombies Hotaru" Ashley pointed out "Those people are hypnotized to be zombies...So being bitten might not turn you into one."
"NOT WANTING TO FIND OUT!" Hotaru shouted then she sighed "But point taken...I gotta face my fears...But we still don't know where they are coming from."
Stripes barks sniffing the ground.
"I think Stripes found something" Ashley noted.
The trio looked over towards Ardos's Arcanine whom smelled the ground and seemed to be pointing.
The trio returned their gaze to see a base about several miles away and it seemed to be crowded with zombies.
"Well there they are" Hotaru muttered.
"I know that was probably half of the zombies we encountered there" Darnel muttered seeing the numbers "But that's more than what we were expecting."
Hotaru gulps nervously "If my best form of Sylveon can't do anything to help us...Then I might have to use something else."
She looks at her Rototrix "Something that has a way to grab onto things and get me to where I need to go...Inside it...Got anything that can help?"
As if responding the Rototrix activates showing her a new Pokemon form a slender but beautiful snake like Pokemon. Once Hotaru saw that this Pokemon was a Grass Type and saw it's vines she got the answer "Well...This has to do."
She activates her Rototrix turning to her friends "here goes nothing!"
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She slaps the device down, she lost her clothes and hair, as white light engulfed her. Her eyes became, face and throat become white, she gains a dark green leaf like vest over her chest and the entire back area is also covered with dark green serpent like, the right side of her chest and lower body become light green, her feet and legs are also dark green but her hands and arms are light green. Lost her legs and feet which became snake like coils which are dark green with yellow curves around it as well as some behind her head leaving only her upper human body but it was sexier such as a bigger breast size.
Darnel blushes bright red and fought to contain a nose bleed as Hotaru seemed very sexy.
"Uh, Hotaru" Ashley told her friend "That form maybe the most sexiest form you have..."
"You're telling me" Darnel admitted "That's hot...And I didn't think you being a Naga would make you hotter."
Hotaru checked out her coils "It's gonna take a while to get used not having legs and feet."
They checked ahead to see the building.
"So how do we get close to the building?" Darnel asked.
Hotaru answered "Ashley, Darnel, grab onto me and hold on!"
Ashley held onto Hotaru's shoulder with Darnel doing the same but accidentally finding Hotaru's breasts instead. Hotaru blushes but doesn't say anything as she needed to act to save people deciding to spare Darnel for once. Darnel then noticed his error and readjusted his grip around Hotaru's neck "Sorry Hotaru! Didn't mean to touch you there."
Hotaru looks at him "No worries but hold onto me you two! Were going tree hoping!"
"How?" Ashley wondered.
She would get her answer when Hotaru unleashed a vine at the nearest tree limb. The vine wrapped around the branch and the three sailed into the air with Ashley screaming her head off as she wasn't expecting this. Her skirt flailed in the wind as they sailed into the air giving a nice panty shot to anyone that might look up. Hotaru then repeated this movement swinging from branch to branch almost as if using her vines like Spiderman would do with buildings in New York City. Ashley and Darnel held on tight with Ashley not too fond of heights especially when Hotaru would literally do flips in the air before using her vines to swing into the air. Darnel didn't mind it, in fact he enjoyed it. When they got close though, Hotaru did one last vine swing this time just like Spiderman she wrapped it around a building's roof and flung herself over towards it and flipped one last time landing on the roof.
"That was fun!" Hotaru commented.
"That was!" Darnel said.
"Speak for yourselves!" Ashley shouted finding a place to throw up "I hate such big heights like the ones we were at!"
"But we got here without being spotted."
"We're not on Cipher's building" Hotaru said to her friends "But we are close, just have to climb down..."
They peered down to see zombies already making their way towards the building. Hotaru peers down "Okay...So much for the silent, break in, rescue plan...Who was screaming?"
Ashley weakly raised her hand "Me! My bad...Your movement caught me off guard completely.
"So where is Cipher's building?" Darnel asked.
Hotaru points "Two blocks down, I ran out of trees to sail on which is why I landed on this building here."
"Good enough" Ashley admitted.
Darnel noticed the building they were on and remembered the building "Hotaru, there's a back Elevator that can lead us safely out the backway. Perhaps we can go through that."
Hotaru peered down at the zombie horde that was coming into the building "You and Ashley go that way then go to Cipher's building and gain entrance to it ether from it's backside or it's front."
"What about you?" Ashley asked.
Hotaru answered "I've gotta face my fears...And face the zombies head on. I'll stop the horde in it's tracks completely. Once I've done that I'll come inside it. Try to find my parents once inside Cipher's building."
"Will do!"
Hotaru lets her friends leave as she catapulted herself over the roof and used a vine to grab onto the building's rooftop then lands on the ground at the back of the zombies safely "Looking for someone?"
Some of the zombies were completely caught off guard by the maneuver and some had been coming inside the building they originally saw Hotaru on. Regardless the horde comes at Hotaru whom uses her vines to wrap around the first wave of zombies a total of fifty zombies and throw them at the others coming out. This didn't harm the zombies too much but it gave Hotaru time to think on her next action looking through her movepool. She then saw the move Glare a move that caused paralysis in whatever it was used on.
"Here it goes...Rototrix...I'm going to use Glare...Give it one hundred times the power than normal...I need it to get the whole wave!"
"Gotcha, Hotaru!" was the response.
Hotaru watches as the zombies came at her quickly. It would take quite a while for her to build up that power and she knew it. She had to buy herself more time. She heard the zombies she met earlier coming from her back. She turned her head seeing them "Looking for me?!"
The horde comes at her but again she wrapped her vines around them and timed it right tossing them onto the horde that came at her front. The horde was stopped momentarily. The horde gets up ready to charge her "Move powerset ready!" the Rototrix replied to her.
"Good!" Hotaru replied to it "Redirect that power into the move as I unleash it"
The Zombie horde comes at her quickly and Hotaru Glared at them sending a mean look at the horde which struck every target thanks to Hotaru's request to the Rototrix paralyzing the horde in it's tracks. Once all zombies were paralyzed Hotaru glanced at all of them trying to look for her parents. So far so good she didn't see them. The horde was finally stopped. Hotaru smirked happily that she had this form for this power. She whipped out with a vine and sails to Cipher's building which Ashley and Darnel had entered through it's back door.
Hotaru's mother and father had indeed escaped. Turned out Hotaru's father wasn't someone anyone wanted to capture being an NCIS agent. He single handingly managed to take a Cipher Soldier's gun away and shoot him allowing himself and his wife to make a break for it. They were nearing the backward exit when Ashley and Darnel entered running into them. The four fell to the ground.
"Ouch" Ashley muttered.
"Ashley?" Hotaru's mother asked with surprise in her voice "Is that you?"
"It is" Ashley said.
Darnel helped Hotaru's father up "Thanks Darnel."
"You're welcome" Darnel told him.
"What are you two doing?" Hotaru's mother asked "Don't you know those white armored people occupy this building?"
"We do" Ashley confessed "But Darnel and I came to help save you...And others."
"Save others?" a voice asked.
The four turn to see Erdos standing on a platform above them. The man eyed the four "And the last four to fall under my spell is going to happen. Hotaru's father aimed the gun he stole from the Cipher soldier right at Erdos "You're the one that tried to hypnotize me and my wife, but failed!"
Erdos looks at him "A NCIS agent I see...Not going to be intimidated I see...But let's see it if you, your wife, and those two kids are ready for this."
He snaps his fingers and Cipher soldiers appeared from their front and back armed.
"You shoot me" Erdos told Hotaru's father "And the four of you will die as well."
"Stand off" Hotaru's mother muttered.
Ashley focuses in her magic hoping that she could help them. Finding that she could magically gather electricity in her palms. Erdos watches her "What is that blond girl up to?"
Ashley unleashes the electricity in form of a massive lightning storm then unleashed the Pokemon move Thunder which crashed onto some of the Cipher soldiers startling them "WHAT THE?"
Another soldier asked "That girl can use Thunder?!"
Ashley gathered in ice and wind "Not only that but how about-"
She was going to complete her sentence when Erdos aimed his gun at her and fired. Ashley gasped hearing the gun shot but before she could be shot a vine had intercepted the bullet catching it before it fired "Firing at civilians now? That's a new low" a female voice called down.
Everyone turns to see Hotaru still as Serperior slithering into the room silently with the vine tossing the bullet away harmlessly.
Erdos locks eyes onto Hotaru and growls "YOU!"
Hotaru also locks eyes on Erdos now getting a good look on the true commander of Cipher's forces and echoed his shout "YOU!"
Cipher Soldiers now turned towards Hotaru guns ready to shoot her. Ashley saw her chance turning to Hotaru's father then muttered to them "Mr. Hatsumi and Mrs. Hatsumi...Now's our chance to escape!"
Hotaru's father was mesmerize by Serperior's body. He could've sworn she looked like his daughter Hotaru, but that couldn't be right...His daughter was terrified of zombies so she wouldn't throw herself into danger like this not when zombies were around. He agreed to go with Ashley, and Darnel. Hotaru watches her parents go off and hides a sweat drop knowing her father had checked her out and was onto her and she thought Oh, boy...I gotta wrap this up...My father already is onto me. It's only a matter of time before he finds out what I am and have been doing."
Erdos looks at Hotaru "How did you bypass those zombies?"
Hotaru answered "Ever heard of Glare?!"
"I have! But don't speak to me with moves that make no sense, Glare only works on one target!"
Hotaru grinned "Normally that's the case...But not with the Rototrix."
Erdos pails "It can't be...That thing can't have the power to power up effects of an attack!"
"Oh, but they can!" Hotaru said "Now I must deal with all of you!"
Erdos now notices Hotaru's parents, Ashley and Darnel had left "Darn it! They escaped while this was going down..."
"Shall we shoot Hotaru down?" the Cipher soldier asked.
"Negative!" Erdos commanded "Leave Hotaru to me...Escape from this place."
"What for?"
"That girl's father is an NCIS agent. He's bound to get his team and others to this place...Set the charges to this place and get out of here to our true base."
"Gotcha!"
"Set the charges?" Hotaru asked hearing that "What does that mean?"
Erdos turned to her "It's what it means girl...I'm going to destroy this building with you in it."
"If you can by yourself!" Hotaru said "I could easily grab you with Vine Whip and take you down with me!"
Erdos smirked "That you could...But I have an ace up my sleeve...Come on out"
At his command Hotaru's Rototrix was going off. Hotaru growls "Shadow Pokemon...Should've known."
She turned to see the Shadow Hypno on the opposite side of the field but on the same platform.
"Hypno" the Rototrix told Hotaru "The Evolved form of Drowzee and a Psychic type Pokemon. It loves to cast people to sleep and eat their dreams."
Hotaru guessed "So this is the Shadow Pokemon that put the town in the zombie like stance."
Erdos nodded turning his back towards her to leave "Indeed, and you are his next prey."
Hotaru looked at him and unleashed her vines to snag him "Oh that's it! I'm no ones food!"
Her vine nearly got Erdos but stops due to Hypno using Psychic on the vine causing it to slap Hotaru in the face "What the?!" she asked.
She watches Erdos leave and heard the charges being set.
"Charges set!" The Rototrix shouted in alarm "Only five minutes till implosion!"
Hotaru now knew the urgency she had only four minutes of battling the Hypno. Well she did have five minutes but she would need at least thirty seconds to escape successfully "NUTS!"
The Hypno starts waving it's watch from it's distance. Hotaru sadly saw the watch waving around but had a plan to deal with Hypno. She saw how effective Wile E. Coyote's hypnotism was on the Road Runner once which was not very effective at all. She planned to try to do the same. She shakes her head following the watch not wanting to fall asleep. She kept her eyes awake as she's waving her head to side to side following the watch. The Shadow Hypno very much acted like Wile E. Coyote even beckoning her to walk forward. Two things managed to save Hotaru from being hypnotized successfully one thing was the distance and in a big building...And the other she kept her eyes awake. She was able to pull it off. This did take some time off the timer for her. When it seemed to not work, the Shadow Hypno decides to try the technique on itself. Bad move for it didn't come with Insomnia so it Hypnotized itself and Hotaru managed to hold up a sign which read Walk towards me!
The Shadow Hypno walks forward only to stop in midair when Hotaru pulled up another sign which read Stop!
It was right then the Hypno woke itself up and then plummeted to the ground.
Hotaru had to hold back a giggle, she couldn't have made that plan work better even if she had practiced it.
Angry the Shadow Hypno gets up and tried Hypnosis again. This time Hotaru had to use her snake tail to shield her eyes then she whipped it out at her attacker striking it in his chest with a Slam...Or would have done so had it not use Psychic on her tail to stop it in midflight. This stunned her even briefly turning her snake like coils back into her usual legs and feet, it had seemed that in this transformation she was granted to ether keep her snake like coils or keep her usual human legs and feet, this could work out for her in the future especially sense her footsteps could be tracked, snakes slithering couldn't be heard, she knew for sure when one nearly slithered up her leg one night when she was living in Japan, talk about a freight she wouldn't forget ether "What the?"
Before she could do anything else, Hypno used Psychic again this time picking up her whole body with it's mind then sent her hurdling into a building pillar causing that part of the building to collapse all over her. Erdos gave it an order from a helicopter he was riding in outside far up to avoid the upcoming blast "She's not going to be beaten that easily with one move like that. She's bound to get out of that rubble...Use start up your Focus Punch!"
Shadow Hypno started focusing for it's next attack. Erdos was proven right, Hotaru had burst out of the rubble "Okay that didn't hurt as much as it did when I was Butterfree but I gotta watch myself against you!"
She then saw her opponent come at her and she was unprepared for it for the most part. She saw her opponent coming at her with lightning fast speed. She quickly uses her legs to jump to her feet and gain lift into the air and she raised two vines. Despite this the Shadow Hypno still managed to punch her, but it wasn't in the chest like it had aimed to do so...Sadly it was right in her stomach which knocked the wind out of her. She wanted to scream in pain as the Focus Punch attack connected to her stomach but having the wind knocked out of her prevented her from doing so. Still at that exact time she had managed to use her Vine Whip attack to strike her opponent twice sending it crashing backwards into a pile of cardboard boxes which collapses on top of it. Hotaru had received the worse of the beating due to having the wind knocked out of her. She was back into her snake coils still trying to catch her breathe thinking N-N-N-Now's NOT the time to be catching your breathe Hotaru! But that punch done it's work forcing you to do so…
The Shadow Hypno got up bursting out of the boxes. It saw Hotaru fighting to regain her breathe and Erdos commanded it to attack "Now use Hypnosis! It's bound to work now"
Hotaru was catching her breathe and started watching as the Shadow Hypno starts waving it's hypnotizing watch and began falling under it's spell thinking N-N-N-No! I can't fall asleep! If I do, there's a sure way I'LL DIE in the implosion!
"Three Minutes till implosion!" the Rototrix warned.
Hotaru felt her eye lids dropping but had to make her move she used her Glare attack on Hypno. Hypno's hypnotic waves seemed to drift all upon Hotaru as her Glare attack seemed to come at Hypno as well. As she was using the move Glare she felt herself drifting off to sleep but refused to let this happen to her. She kept her eye lids opened despite fighting the urge to fall asleep as it was becoming too much for her to resist. At the same time her Glare attack connected paralyzing the Shadow Hypno on the spot making it stop briefly using it's Hypnosis attack. The Hypno couldn't move! At least that's what Hotaru guessed as she now stops feeling sleepy now that the attack had failed.
"Risky move Hotaru" Hotaru told herself "Any second longer and you might've fallen asleep!"
"Warning two minutes till implosion!" the Rototrix warned once more.
Not much time left! Hotaru thought I gotta wrap this up! And then grab the Shadow Hypno as it is fainted then leave the building! She then looked through her seeing Leaf Storm. She builds up her powers and unleashes a violent Leaf Storm attack at the Shadow Hypno. The Shadow Hypno watches unable to move as the Leaf Storm attack hit it square on "HYPNO!"
Despite the hit it was still standing, but got the surprise of it's life when Hotaru whom was supposed to have her Special Attack lowered after using Leaf Storm actually had it greatly increased instead.
Erdos was now in his Helicopter watching the fight from above the soon to be destroyed building cursed it at what ability Hotaru actually had."Curses...That Serperior form of hers has Contrary! It's Hidden Special ability meaning if an attack would normally lower her Stats it would reverse that stat so that it increases instead."
"Rototrix" Hotaru commanded it "Give me all remaining power...It's time to use it..."
"It?..." the Rototrix asked her then it got it, Hotaru was planning to use Solar Beam "We have little time left, we'd need to charge up then fire...We don't have that time!"
"Not unless you double the power you give me!" Hotaru told it "Now quickly do as I command!"
"er okay, I hope you know what you're doing!"
"Don't start doubting me now and trust me!"
"Well alright!"
Hotaru began building up her energies as the Rototrix transferred most of it's power to charging Hotaru's attack. The maneuver worked just at Hotaru had hoped, usually when one used Solar Beam it was a two turn attack needing all that one turn to charge up then the second fire it. Unless of course in harsh sunlight. By requesting the Rototrix to transfer almost all of it's power it acted like harsh sunlight giving Hotaru the time needed to absorb and fire Solar Beam all in one move and it was massive. Almost as if Iron Man was using a gigantic Unibeam. The blast hit Hypno whom wasn't able to move due to Hotaru's Glare attack and pushed it out of the now abandoned Cipher building.
For some odd reason the Rototrix wasn't responding at all. Hotaru had a feeling she overdone the Rototrix's programming and might have accidentally caused the Rotom to briefly short circuit itself. She raises a vine and manages to get out of the building just in time to hear the explosion behind her. She turns towards the building watching it crumble into the ground. Luckily she had escaped with only seconds to spare. Outside she saw the fainted Shadow Hypno "Shadow Pokemon...Defeated."
The Rototrix managed to reboot itself briefly for the event "Purifying Shadow Pokemon now!"
Hotaru lets the Rototrix purify it looking around and she saw Erdos in a helicopter then the two once more made eye contact with each other getting a good look at each other knowing this war between Hotaru and Cipher would continue till Cipher was defeated once more or given up, or in Cipher's case till Hotaru was dead. Hotaru watches the helicopter leave.
"Shadow Pokemon purified" the Rototrix said to Hotaru "But I'm out of power...Unable to assist you further in battle."
"Take a rest Rotom" Hotaru told it "I was afraid that my request my short circuit your systems but it had to be done otherwise I'd be dead most likely."
"Right" The Rotom replied.
With this with Hotaru still as Serperior she once more used Vine Whip to hurdle herself through the tree tops towards Ashley's house. On the way to Ashley's house, she looked down to see that the defeat of Shadow Hypno managed to free the civilians from it's spell and her Glare also worn off on them. She felt proud to have saved the entire city. Luckily she had managed to be the first one there allowing herself to now return back to normal. She would wait for Ashley, and Darnel to arrive with her parents. Ashley saw Hotaru "Hotaru! Darnel and I managed to save your parents."
"We sort of escaped ourselves" Hotaru's dad admitted "But it was nice to know you were coming to help..."
"Hotaru wouldn't have helped with all those people acting like zombies" Hotaru's mother said.
Hotaru's father muttered "You make the mistake of having your daughter watch that zombie movie and it scares her for life."
Hotaru ran down to hug her parents joyfully "MOM! DAD! I'm glad you two are safe!"
"We're here honey" Hotaru's mother said joyful to have a daughter that was worried for them.
Hotaru's father sighed "This organization known as Cipher is going to get out of hand..."
Hotaru's mother turned to him "Now could NCIS get on their case."
"Oh once Agent Gibbs finds out nearly everyone including me had been captured by Cipher, you bet he'd want to figure out Cipher's next move. But one question remains in my mind."
"What is it dear?" Hotaru's mother asked.
"Who was that snake girl we saw back there that came to help us?" Hotaru's dad asked "I've never seen anygirl like her before but yet she seemed like I should've known her.
Hotaru hid a small frightened gulp knowing her father out of any person was going to think on this issue, so she'd have to be very careful around him, she didn't want to be grounded, after all she couldn't fight Cipher grounded.
Hotaru's dad sighed "Another mystery...But I do hope she survived. Well, Hotaru let's go home."
"Alright be right there!" Hotaru told her parents watching them walk off.
Hotaru turned to Ashley and Darnel with Ashley winking at Hotaru "When all of this is done, just wait till your dad finds out about your identity then when he finds it and is reminded of this day."
Hotaru giggled slightly winking back "He might ground me but he'd at least give me credit for helping to save him and my mother."
She walks off with her parents to go home and turned to Ashley "Meeting tomorrow after school activities?"
Ashley knew what this meant, they'd be meeting again to get answers to whom killed her parents "You bet!"
Darnel turned to her "Well I better get going too. See you tomorrow Ashley."
Ashley waved to him goodbye "See ya"
Once her friends were gone she goes into her house and locks the door happy to have friends like Darnel and Hotaru, especially Hotaru now that Hotaru had the Rototrix perhaps just one day she'd find answers to whom killed her parents and hopefully bring her parent's killers to justice so their souls could rest in peace.
End of chapter
Long chapter well longer than most of them but Part two of Cipher's Zombie Plan is done! Next episode is Episode 6: Unlucky Midnight Encounter When three of Hotaru's classmates disappear, Hotaru sets off on a mystery to solve the disappearance but could this investigation be her last?
A/N: We are two chapters away from the very first Crossover Episode! I'm giving all of you this information now that there are Five confirmed crossover characters from various TV Show or Comics, raging from shows that were found on Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Marvel comics, DC, and a show on Cartoon Network to make a grand total of six crossover episodes. Now you maybe asking me why are their six shouldn't there be just five? Well no! Because the actual sixth crossover will combine all of the guest characters into one big final showdown towards the end. I won't spoil who the guest characters are but I will spoil what TV station or owner the characters were owned by. I will also give you two more hints with one hint which is that the characters all have TV animations on them. A third hint is all characters I will be using are older teenage heroes that have experience in hero work. Those are all the hints I'll give so feel free to guess whom my five special guest characters are.