Chapter Five
Author's note: To those who've been complaining about how un-dangerous (is that even a real word?) Cipher seems, my reply is: Oh, they're plenty dangerous. You just have to wait for the later chapters to find out why...
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Some hours later, the whole crew was sitting around a fire John had made, eating a dinner they'd cooked upon it. It was a simple beef stew. The Pokemon had gathered the vegetables from the nearby area and Michael had gone to Phenac City to get the beef. As they ate the food, they chatted.
Lucy had just asked why the purification hadn't continued while she and Lady slept, which they'd done immediately after Michael apologized for watching them. To this, Michael replied "Well, mostly because I thought a break would be nice. But there's also the fact that my next Snag, Veronica, wanted you to be involved in her own Purification kick-start, as well."
Lucy blinked. "As well?" she asked. "Who's the third?"
"Me," Michael said simply. For some reason, Tipper and Lady both looked disappointed at this reply, but Michael decided to let it go.
The silence that followed dragged on for a few minutes before, out of the blue, an Arcanine came walking into the area they were sitting. An Arcanine with different-than-normal colorations: The parts that should have been just a regular red were a deep, dark red, about the color of blood. The spots that were usually the color of cream were, instead, about the color of chocolate. The black stripes were all that were the same color as the dog's normal-colored kin. Michael was just opening his mouth to suggest that perhaps it was a shiny Arcanine when the Aura Reader proved him wrong. It slid over his eye and revealed an XD-level Shadow Aura.
Blinking, Michael asked "But...How did you get to here from Hoenn?"
The Arcanine obviously realized that Michael's question was directed toward him, because, in a voice considerably higher than John's, but still obviously masculine, he answered "I don't know...I was just wandering the lab when out of nowhere, my world went black. When I woke up, I was on a forest floor and a helicopter with the Cipher logo was flying away, leaving me completely alone..."
'Since when does Cipher have a logo?' Michael thought, but he didn't bother voicing the question out loud. Something in the Arcanine's tone told Michael that the organization'd had a logo as long as he could remember, which meant two things: First that he'd been bred in the lab, and second, that he wouldn't have any idea when the logo had been adopted. So what he asked, instead, was "What does the Cipher logo look like?"
Rather than answering, the Arcanine curled himself until his muzzle was in the fur of his back haunches. He dug around in it for a while, then turned back around and spat something out at Michael's feet. It was a patch with fabric around it that looked like it had been torn from a uniform. It was a simplistic logo: A Pokeball with the letters "XD" super-imposed over it.
Michael picked the thing up and looked at it for a few moments before putting it back down, muttering something about a lack of creativity. Out loud, he said "You certainly don't seem to behave like the typical XD Pokemon. You're much less aggressive..."
"Yeah..." admitted the Arcanine. "I overheard one of the Cipher scientists saying that about me, once...Seemed to think this made me an inferior specimen...Maybe that's why they got rid of me?"
Michael shrugged. "It's possible, I suppose," he replied. He was silent for a few minutes as he thought, then he said "Well, as I intend to Purify every XD, and Purifying them requires me to make myself their trainer, I'm going to have to capture you. The question is, are you going to let me, or shall I have to battle you, first?"
The Arcanine gave a gesture peculiarly like a shrug and replied "Go right ahead. I'm half-starved from wandering the wild as it is...I'm not fit for surviving on my own, I need somebody to take care of me, and a trainer sounds like as good a person to do that as any."
Michael nodded and wordlessly pulled out a Pokeball, tossing it at the XD Arcanine. A few seconds later, it was official and he let the canine Pokemon back out to join them for food, which there was still plenty enough of left.
As the Arcanine set in on his helping of the stew, Michael pulled Lucy aside, away from the group, and told her in a whisper "Listen...I may plan to stop Cipher again, but they have too many...I can't stop them alone like last time. So...I want you to have this..."
It was then that she noticed that the first portable Snag Machine was no longer on his left arm. Instead, it was being held in his right hand and out toward her. She blinked. "Oh, gosh..." she said. "I dunno...I mean, you doing it is one thing, but I don't think I could ever steal somebody else's Pokemon..."
Michael gave her a humorless smile and replied "That's what I thought, myself, when I began my first adventure. But, then, I thought...If they don't get taken by somebody, they'll never be Purified, and that would be a REAL crime...Just do what I did: Think of it as the lesser of two evils."
She pondered these words for several long minutes, then finally sighed, nodded, and took the machine, attaching it to her left arm. He smiled again and patted her on the back, then led her back to the group.
After everybody in the group had eaten their fill, excluding the Arcanine, who was unable to eat as much as he'd have liked before all of the stew ran out, Michael announced "Now, I've recently decided something...I thought to myself 'Once we have an XD, we can take as long as we need to get around to starting his or her Purification, so that part really isn't as important as getting our hands on more XDs.' Therefore, I have decided that Lucy and I are going to take a brief break from the Purification process in order to return to Cipher's lab and do some more Snagging."
Veronica seemed disappointed at the fact that she wouldn't be getting her threesome right away, but apparently understood, because she nodded and said "That's what is most important."
John leaned down and licked Michael's cheek, which brought a startled look to the human's face. "Well, then, see you when you get back, hot stuff," John cooed, then winked. Michael looked like he was about to start shouting, but Lucy dragged him away from the group.
"Chill," she told him. "He obviously didn't realize you're straight. You'll have to let him down gently when we get back, but shouting at him will only make him turn his back on you...You don't want that, do you?"
"I suppose not..." Michael replied. "I mean, I don't have anything wrong with homosexuals and I do need to get him Purified...But you're right that I'm straight as an arrow, so it tends to...irk me when a gay guy tries to hit on me."
She giggled. "I could tell. Anyway, come on, let's go return the Pokemon to their balls, then get going. Not sure how we're going to explain to the HQ crew that we need to head back to Cipher's lab, though..."
They managed it by telling them they'd found a way to Purify the XD Pokemon, but didn't really want to explain how, just yet. The lab staff, all too thrilled by the news that there was still hope for these new XDs to question them about their methods, eagerly agreed to let them use the chopper any time they needed it. Now, about an hour later, they were on their way to the lab from where they had the chopper land, in a clearing about ten yards to the southeast of the Cipher lab, each of them with a full belt of six normal Pokemon around his or her waist.
"Okay," said Michael, "let's go over the plan one more time..."
Lucy sighed and said "I don't see why, it's simple: Each of us goes in a separate entrance and raids that section of the lab, Snagging every XD we can get until either we're out of usable Pokemon, or there's no way for us to get more without getting back out safely. Then, we rendezvous back at the clearing to fly back home."
Michael nodded. "Good," was all he said.
They'd reached the outer perimeter and were about to split up when Lucy spotted something and stopped Michael. "Wait..." she said. Pointing at what she'd seen, she said "That's a computer link-up terminal...I wonder what they're doing putting it just beside a gate leading through their outermost wall? Anyway, it's a lucky break for us, 'cause I brought my laptop. I can hack into their system and disable the security again..."
He nodded. It might lack originality, but it worked and worked well, he knew this from their previous raid. "Go for it," he told her, "I'll head for the next gate while you're at it."
She nodded back and replied "You'll know I've done it when the gate opens by itself..."
A few minutes later, the gate Michael stood beside came swinging open. He was just about to rush through when a Cipher peon stepped out, pushing some sort of cart ahead of her. He dove into the bushes to hide and waited until she was well out of sight before going back to beside the gate, which had closed again. Obviously, the hacking wasn't finished, yet...
About a minute or two after that incident, the gate opened again. Cautiously checking to make sure no more Cipher people were using it, he stepped inside when there weren't. Sure enough, the auto-cannon on the inner side of the wall didn't respond to his presence, which could only mean it was smooth sailing from here until he met up with the first Cipher goon.
After a few brief, easy moments of cruising right on by the inactive security devices, he reached what appeared to be the back entrance to the complex and discovered a pair of familiar faces. Grinning wickedly, he cheerily said "Well, hello again, boys!"
The goons that had barred his way on the previous raid growled at him and one said "You! We got demoted because of you!"
Michael shrugged and replied "Eh, well...Whatcha' gonna' do?"
"This!" replied the other goon as each of them tossed a Pokeball. To nobody's surprise, both of them showed up as XDs on the Aura Reader. But what WAS surprising was the creature standing beside the Weedle the first guy had released...
It looked like a huge ball of flame that was hovering in mid air, except that it was a color of flame Michael had never seen before: A deep, bluish green. Another thing this thing had that no fire Michael knew of ever had: A pair of large, green glowing objects shaped roughly like half-moons that occasionally blinked, obviously eyes.
Taking an educated guess, Michael decided the second Pokemon must be at least part Fire. And, so, he tossed the Pokeballs for his Dragonite and, for the Weedle, his Scyther.
The command the fireball's trainer shouted made it clear his guess was correct: "Shadow Flame attack on the Scyther!" he shouted, though he didn't look as though he expected it to work, despite Scyther's weakness, which would suggest it was low-level.
As the other trainer suggested Weedle use String Shot, Michael shouted "Scyther, False Swipe on the Weedle! Dragonite, Leer at the....whatever that is..."
Dragonite and Scyther went first and when the Weedle and Fire thing used their own attacks, Michael's Pokemon barely even felt it. He loaded a Pokeball into his Snag Machine and lobbed it at the Weedle, then had Scyther go for the Fire thing with False Swipe. As the Snag completed and the Pokeball vanished to head for the PC, Scyther leapt forward to unleash another False Swipe attack...but it had no effect...
"Wha-?" Michael started, but then it came to him..."Of course, it's a Ghost! Dragonite, return! Mightyena, use Odor Sleuth on the fireball thing..."
The large Dragon Pokemon returned to its Pokeball just as the fireball was launching an attack at it, forcing Michael to hop out of the way to avoid getting torched, then the Mightyena emerged from its Pokeball and unleashed the ordered attack, identifying the physical nature of this particular Ghost and pointing out to Scyther where to strike so that its attacks would take effect. Nodding and taking the initiative, knowing full well what Michael's plan was, the Scyther unleashed yet another False Swipe, and this time, it worked.
Thanks to all of the stalling from getting the Fire and Ghost Pokemon ready for Snagging, the Snag Machine had fully recharged, just on time. Michael tossed another Pokeball through the machine, then at the remaining XD. Before long, it was full and following the first to the PC.
The Cipher goons sighed as if they'd been expecting this outcome, then left. Michael followed them into the building at his leisure and was neither surprised nor disappointed to find them nowhere in sight. If that was all they had, they held no further interest for him.
But, apparently, this time there was somebody nearby for them to warn of his presence, because he only got in a few steps before a man in a lab coat came running toward him from the end of the hallway the other goons had vanished down and shouted "That's as far as you'll go!"
Michael snorted sardonically, but said nothing as the scientist chucked a Pokeball that unleashed a Politoed that was colored blue striped an odd off-white color, rather than green striped yellow-green. Knowing that Politoed could only be evolved from a Poliwhirl, which, on its own, meant this Politoed was already considerably stronger than the last two XDs combined, Michael felt like it would be safe enough to exploit elemental weakness, so his own Pokemon was the Electabuzz he used in the previous raid.
Michael's first order was to tell the Electabuzz to paralyze the Politoed with Thunder Wave. It was extra successful, the paralysis was in full effect when the Politoed should have been able to attack. So Michael had Electabuzz hit the Politoed with a Thunderbolt and winced as he saw how close the Politoed came to unconsciousness from the attack. The Politoed barely even maintained the force of will to execute the Shadow Rush attack the scientist told it to use, but wasn't even successful in striking its target. So the Politoed was still fairly newly-evolved.
"Snag Ball, go!" Michael shouted as he tossed a Great Ball he'd fed through the Snag Machine.
The next time, he managed to get to the end of the hall before a man dressed in a uniform made of the same material around the patch the Arcanine had on him, a similar patch over the top of the right arm of his uniform and a baseball cap of the same color as the uniform, burst out of the elevator Michael had just been about to take. They exchanged no words as the man unleashed a Zangoose with colors the same as Tipper and a Nidoking whose main body bore scales the color of maple leaves in spring and whose other scales, the ones normally white, were the color of a cloudless, sunny-day sky. Michael responded by sending Mightyena back out, backed up with a Machamp.
It took about a quarter of an hour for the Cipher goons to grind Michael's team down to the point where he had to make his escape. He went to wait by the chopper for Lucy's return. He was waiting for approximately forty-five minutes until she finally arrived with a grin on her face. "Sorry I took so long," she said. "I found a healing machine during my adventure and kept heading back to use it. The only reason they finally drove me out was because about a dozen guys ganged up on me at once and I had to vamoose."
Michael laughed and replied "Probably the same gang that tried to do the same to me. They'd have had me captured, except I brought a trump card. They waited until the five Pokemon they knew I had were exhausted, then jumped me, but then I surprised them with a sixth Pokemon. My Weezing used Smokescreen and I made my escape during the confusion." Grinning as she laughed gleefully at this, he said "Well, you're not the only one who has their clever moments."
As they climbed into the helicopter and started back toward their own lab, Lucy told Michael all about her own escape, which turned out to have been very similar to Michael's. Evidently, she let out her Umbreon and had him use Double Team to create numerous illusions, using the ensuing chaos to escape.
As they made a count of their bounty, it turned out, unsurprisingly, that Lucy had made more Snags than Michael, though not nearly as many as he'd expected. Apparently, her Pokemon were lower in level than his, because even with as long as she'd spent in the lab, she'd only Snagged a little under twice as many XDs as Michael. In total, Michael nabbed an even twenty XDs and Lucy came away with thirty-six.
When they got back to the Pokemon HQ Lab, the staff wanted to know how they were Purifying the XD Pokemon. Michael and Lucy, of course, still weren't sure they wanted to tell anyone, so they weaseled their way out of it by telling them they were still fine-tuning the process, but they'd be sure to let everyone know once they had things down pat.
After both of them had made some adjustments to their teams, they went back to the SS Libra and found Michael's previous Snags snoozing lazily around the cargo area. All except for Veronica, who, as soon as she saw they were back, zoomed over and pounced Michael to the floor.
Blinking in confusion, Michael started "Wha?"
But Veronica cut him off, lowering herself down and pressing her lips firmly to Michael's, whose eyes shot open. After a few seconds of this, and stunned silence on Lucy's part, the Raichu broke away from her trainer's lips and whispered just loud enough that Lucy could hear, too, "I was so worried about you! I thought you might have both been captured or killed or worse..."
"Shhh...." Michael whispered back soothingly, wrapping his arms around the mouse Pokemon as Lucy stepped forward to help him comfort her. "It's okay. We both made it out just fine. We're still alive and I can assure you, we're both still in one piece."
Lucy wasn't sure what had brought this sudden worry on, so she didn't know what to say. Instead, she just silently patted the Raichu's back soothingly.
After a few moments, Veronica calmed down and she sniffled one last time before saying "I'm sorry...I'm being silly...I just...Well, you two are the only humans who've ever been kind to me, so I didn't want to see you hurt..."
And now that she knew what was at the heart of the problem, Lucy knew there was nothing more that could be said to Veronica except: "Shhh, it's okay. You're NOT being silly. It's only natural that if you only have two friends, you would worry about their safety. Don't worry, though, we're tough. We'll be fine. AND we're going to help you make more friends. Allright?"
Veronica smiled and nodded. Now, at last, she was truly better. "Okay," she said. "So, um...Can...Can we have our sex, now?"
Michael groaned internally. He'd thought of an alternate means of getting the Purification started and he meant to test it out...But she just looked so hopeful, so eager, and just after her little scare about the possibility of he and Lucy being hurt, too...And it didn't help any that her voice still had that suggestive tone to it....
"Well, I guess so, if Lucy's ready for it," he conceded.
Lucy smiled softly and nodded, replying "Sure! How would you like to do this?"
"Actually," replied Veronica, "I've been thinking about it while you were away..." She leaned up and began a whispered conversation with Lucy that involved many glances over at Michael on both girls' parts and the occasional bursts of giggling, and Michael blinking confusedly all the while.
All at once, they both nodded together and turned toward him. He blinked again at the devilish grins on their faces and was just wondering if, perhaps, he should try to escape when each of them grabbed a hold of one of his arms, keeping him in place.
"Uh...what's going on, here, ladies?" he asked, but they just giggled.
Slowly, they moved him down to lay on the floor. Before he could protest, they whisked his shirt up over his head and off, tossing it aside. As Veronica held each of his arms down with one of her paws and leaned down to start nibbling lightly on his chest, bringing a light shiver from the male, Lucy moved down and began to work on his pants, starting by removing his belt, then undoing his button and zipper, and finally sliding them down his legs. Once they were off, she teased his inner thighs a bit before starting to remove his boxers.
He didn't even seem to notice when Veronica released his arms. The two girls switched places and Lucy leaned down to place her lips upon his as the Raichu's lips wrapped around the head of his shaft and sucked a few times, drawing a moan out of him.
Veronica pulled off of his shaft and began to lick all over it, instead, as Lucy's tongue slid into his mouth. He was just starting to really get into it when they both completely stopped. He groaned in frustration and they both giggled.
"Don't worry, hun," Veronica told him, "we've got something better planned..."
He blinked at her in confusion, but she said nothing, giggling a little as she crawled forward a bit.
Before he even knew it, he had a pussy hovering over each of two of his body parts, one over his mouth, and the other above his throbbing shaft. The brown fur covering the latter told him which was which and he didn't need to be told what to do. Eagerly, he pulled Lucy down to sit on his face and began to feast from her sex as he, then, began to lower the Raichu down onto his member. Both girls let out identical moans of pleasure and immediately began thrusting against the body parts entering them as they leaned forward and began to kiss passionately. From the motions of their mouths, Michael could tell they were even using tongue.
The sight of two females making out as he humped one and ate the other out made him extremely hot and before long, both of his body parts began to act fervently within them. All three of them gave moans of pleasure that were muffled by a part of one of his/her lovers' body parts as the pleasure began to build.
When Veronica's paws raised to Lucy's chest and each one began to rub and squeeze a breast, Michael's concentration on thrusting and licking wavered for a moment. It was such a hot, beautiful sight and he almost stopped completely to just watch them.
Instead, he returned to work, faster and more enthusiastically than before. When he felt his shaft rub it accidentally, he grinned and shifted to thrust so that his member was rubbing against Veronica's G-spot. With a grin at the moan this brought from the Raichu, he wrapped his lips around Lucy's clit and began to suck firmly upon it.
At last, neither female could take any more and both of them began to thrust, Lucy against Michael's face and Veronica against his cock. Moving his lips around the other human's clit so that it felt like he was nibbling on it, he reached his right hand down to find Veronica's and gripped the nub between thumb and forefinger.
Apparently, this was either Veronica's first time, or one of her first, because she suddenly screamed into the kiss as her cunny went berserk around Michael's cock, smearing it with her cum. The way her inner walls moved and pulsed around him, gripping him firmly, was an intense feeling and he moaned into Lucy's pussy in response.
Veronica looked about ready to stop, content with just one orgasm, but Michael didn't bother to. After only a few seconds, Veronica was thrusting again, apparently deciding she'd like another.
Nothing really changed after that, the same things just continued for several minutes, then suddenly, Veronica hit her second orgasm as Lucy hit one of her own. Michael wrapped his lips around Lucy's cunny so not a drop would escape and began to drink her juices down. But apparently, the gripping and squirming of Veronica's cunny was too much this time, because he suddenly shuddered and exploded into her waiting body, pouring gush after gush of his thick, hot seed into her eager cunny.
A couple hours later, the other Pokemon woke up and exchanged cheery greetings with the two trainers. For several minutes, the humans told the Pokemon their tales of adventure and excitement, then as the rest of the Pokemon went to talk amongst themselves, John approached Michael. At this point, the human told the Charizard that he was unquestioningly heterosexual. To the surprise of both humans, John was more concerned about what this would mean for his own Purification than he was about an unrequited crush.
He was just starting to really get going, muttering to himself, when Michael announced "You know, it's really not that bad. I've thought of a possible alternative, supposing we can find another like you...See, I was thinking we could use you to test my theory that that perhaps the sex doesn't have to be between a human and a Pokemon..."
Realizing exactly where Michael was going, Lucy announced "I have exactly what you're looking for!"
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Heh. Yep, I'm doing it again. Making you wait until the next chapter to find out what's up. But I'm making up for it: First off, by popular demand, I'm lowering the reviews-per-chapter requirement. I'm dropping it by two so that you'll only need to produce three each time before the next chapter comes. Secondly, I'm going to allow you folks to influence the story a little. I can't decide on a name for the Arcanine that showed up in this chapter, nor can I decide on his sexuality. So, in your reviews, if it matters to you, submit your vote as to whether he should be gay or bi, as well as any suggestions you may have as to his name.
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Some hours later, the whole crew was sitting around a fire John had made, eating a dinner they'd cooked upon it. It was a simple beef stew. The Pokemon had gathered the vegetables from the nearby area and Michael had gone to Phenac City to get the beef. As they ate the food, they chatted.
Lucy had just asked why the purification hadn't continued while she and Lady slept, which they'd done immediately after Michael apologized for watching them. To this, Michael replied "Well, mostly because I thought a break would be nice. But there's also the fact that my next Snag, Veronica, wanted you to be involved in her own Purification kick-start, as well."
Lucy blinked. "As well?" she asked. "Who's the third?"
"Me," Michael said simply. For some reason, Tipper and Lady both looked disappointed at this reply, but Michael decided to let it go.
The silence that followed dragged on for a few minutes before, out of the blue, an Arcanine came walking into the area they were sitting. An Arcanine with different-than-normal colorations: The parts that should have been just a regular red were a deep, dark red, about the color of blood. The spots that were usually the color of cream were, instead, about the color of chocolate. The black stripes were all that were the same color as the dog's normal-colored kin. Michael was just opening his mouth to suggest that perhaps it was a shiny Arcanine when the Aura Reader proved him wrong. It slid over his eye and revealed an XD-level Shadow Aura.
Blinking, Michael asked "But...How did you get to here from Hoenn?"
The Arcanine obviously realized that Michael's question was directed toward him, because, in a voice considerably higher than John's, but still obviously masculine, he answered "I don't know...I was just wandering the lab when out of nowhere, my world went black. When I woke up, I was on a forest floor and a helicopter with the Cipher logo was flying away, leaving me completely alone..."
'Since when does Cipher have a logo?' Michael thought, but he didn't bother voicing the question out loud. Something in the Arcanine's tone told Michael that the organization'd had a logo as long as he could remember, which meant two things: First that he'd been bred in the lab, and second, that he wouldn't have any idea when the logo had been adopted. So what he asked, instead, was "What does the Cipher logo look like?"
Rather than answering, the Arcanine curled himself until his muzzle was in the fur of his back haunches. He dug around in it for a while, then turned back around and spat something out at Michael's feet. It was a patch with fabric around it that looked like it had been torn from a uniform. It was a simplistic logo: A Pokeball with the letters "XD" super-imposed over it.
Michael picked the thing up and looked at it for a few moments before putting it back down, muttering something about a lack of creativity. Out loud, he said "You certainly don't seem to behave like the typical XD Pokemon. You're much less aggressive..."
"Yeah..." admitted the Arcanine. "I overheard one of the Cipher scientists saying that about me, once...Seemed to think this made me an inferior specimen...Maybe that's why they got rid of me?"
Michael shrugged. "It's possible, I suppose," he replied. He was silent for a few minutes as he thought, then he said "Well, as I intend to Purify every XD, and Purifying them requires me to make myself their trainer, I'm going to have to capture you. The question is, are you going to let me, or shall I have to battle you, first?"
The Arcanine gave a gesture peculiarly like a shrug and replied "Go right ahead. I'm half-starved from wandering the wild as it is...I'm not fit for surviving on my own, I need somebody to take care of me, and a trainer sounds like as good a person to do that as any."
Michael nodded and wordlessly pulled out a Pokeball, tossing it at the XD Arcanine. A few seconds later, it was official and he let the canine Pokemon back out to join them for food, which there was still plenty enough of left.
As the Arcanine set in on his helping of the stew, Michael pulled Lucy aside, away from the group, and told her in a whisper "Listen...I may plan to stop Cipher again, but they have too many...I can't stop them alone like last time. So...I want you to have this..."
It was then that she noticed that the first portable Snag Machine was no longer on his left arm. Instead, it was being held in his right hand and out toward her. She blinked. "Oh, gosh..." she said. "I dunno...I mean, you doing it is one thing, but I don't think I could ever steal somebody else's Pokemon..."
Michael gave her a humorless smile and replied "That's what I thought, myself, when I began my first adventure. But, then, I thought...If they don't get taken by somebody, they'll never be Purified, and that would be a REAL crime...Just do what I did: Think of it as the lesser of two evils."
She pondered these words for several long minutes, then finally sighed, nodded, and took the machine, attaching it to her left arm. He smiled again and patted her on the back, then led her back to the group.
After everybody in the group had eaten their fill, excluding the Arcanine, who was unable to eat as much as he'd have liked before all of the stew ran out, Michael announced "Now, I've recently decided something...I thought to myself 'Once we have an XD, we can take as long as we need to get around to starting his or her Purification, so that part really isn't as important as getting our hands on more XDs.' Therefore, I have decided that Lucy and I are going to take a brief break from the Purification process in order to return to Cipher's lab and do some more Snagging."
Veronica seemed disappointed at the fact that she wouldn't be getting her threesome right away, but apparently understood, because she nodded and said "That's what is most important."
John leaned down and licked Michael's cheek, which brought a startled look to the human's face. "Well, then, see you when you get back, hot stuff," John cooed, then winked. Michael looked like he was about to start shouting, but Lucy dragged him away from the group.
"Chill," she told him. "He obviously didn't realize you're straight. You'll have to let him down gently when we get back, but shouting at him will only make him turn his back on you...You don't want that, do you?"
"I suppose not..." Michael replied. "I mean, I don't have anything wrong with homosexuals and I do need to get him Purified...But you're right that I'm straight as an arrow, so it tends to...irk me when a gay guy tries to hit on me."
She giggled. "I could tell. Anyway, come on, let's go return the Pokemon to their balls, then get going. Not sure how we're going to explain to the HQ crew that we need to head back to Cipher's lab, though..."
They managed it by telling them they'd found a way to Purify the XD Pokemon, but didn't really want to explain how, just yet. The lab staff, all too thrilled by the news that there was still hope for these new XDs to question them about their methods, eagerly agreed to let them use the chopper any time they needed it. Now, about an hour later, they were on their way to the lab from where they had the chopper land, in a clearing about ten yards to the southeast of the Cipher lab, each of them with a full belt of six normal Pokemon around his or her waist.
"Okay," said Michael, "let's go over the plan one more time..."
Lucy sighed and said "I don't see why, it's simple: Each of us goes in a separate entrance and raids that section of the lab, Snagging every XD we can get until either we're out of usable Pokemon, or there's no way for us to get more without getting back out safely. Then, we rendezvous back at the clearing to fly back home."
Michael nodded. "Good," was all he said.
They'd reached the outer perimeter and were about to split up when Lucy spotted something and stopped Michael. "Wait..." she said. Pointing at what she'd seen, she said "That's a computer link-up terminal...I wonder what they're doing putting it just beside a gate leading through their outermost wall? Anyway, it's a lucky break for us, 'cause I brought my laptop. I can hack into their system and disable the security again..."
He nodded. It might lack originality, but it worked and worked well, he knew this from their previous raid. "Go for it," he told her, "I'll head for the next gate while you're at it."
She nodded back and replied "You'll know I've done it when the gate opens by itself..."
A few minutes later, the gate Michael stood beside came swinging open. He was just about to rush through when a Cipher peon stepped out, pushing some sort of cart ahead of her. He dove into the bushes to hide and waited until she was well out of sight before going back to beside the gate, which had closed again. Obviously, the hacking wasn't finished, yet...
About a minute or two after that incident, the gate opened again. Cautiously checking to make sure no more Cipher people were using it, he stepped inside when there weren't. Sure enough, the auto-cannon on the inner side of the wall didn't respond to his presence, which could only mean it was smooth sailing from here until he met up with the first Cipher goon.
After a few brief, easy moments of cruising right on by the inactive security devices, he reached what appeared to be the back entrance to the complex and discovered a pair of familiar faces. Grinning wickedly, he cheerily said "Well, hello again, boys!"
The goons that had barred his way on the previous raid growled at him and one said "You! We got demoted because of you!"
Michael shrugged and replied "Eh, well...Whatcha' gonna' do?"
"This!" replied the other goon as each of them tossed a Pokeball. To nobody's surprise, both of them showed up as XDs on the Aura Reader. But what WAS surprising was the creature standing beside the Weedle the first guy had released...
It looked like a huge ball of flame that was hovering in mid air, except that it was a color of flame Michael had never seen before: A deep, bluish green. Another thing this thing had that no fire Michael knew of ever had: A pair of large, green glowing objects shaped roughly like half-moons that occasionally blinked, obviously eyes.
Taking an educated guess, Michael decided the second Pokemon must be at least part Fire. And, so, he tossed the Pokeballs for his Dragonite and, for the Weedle, his Scyther.
The command the fireball's trainer shouted made it clear his guess was correct: "Shadow Flame attack on the Scyther!" he shouted, though he didn't look as though he expected it to work, despite Scyther's weakness, which would suggest it was low-level.
As the other trainer suggested Weedle use String Shot, Michael shouted "Scyther, False Swipe on the Weedle! Dragonite, Leer at the....whatever that is..."
Dragonite and Scyther went first and when the Weedle and Fire thing used their own attacks, Michael's Pokemon barely even felt it. He loaded a Pokeball into his Snag Machine and lobbed it at the Weedle, then had Scyther go for the Fire thing with False Swipe. As the Snag completed and the Pokeball vanished to head for the PC, Scyther leapt forward to unleash another False Swipe attack...but it had no effect...
"Wha-?" Michael started, but then it came to him..."Of course, it's a Ghost! Dragonite, return! Mightyena, use Odor Sleuth on the fireball thing..."
The large Dragon Pokemon returned to its Pokeball just as the fireball was launching an attack at it, forcing Michael to hop out of the way to avoid getting torched, then the Mightyena emerged from its Pokeball and unleashed the ordered attack, identifying the physical nature of this particular Ghost and pointing out to Scyther where to strike so that its attacks would take effect. Nodding and taking the initiative, knowing full well what Michael's plan was, the Scyther unleashed yet another False Swipe, and this time, it worked.
Thanks to all of the stalling from getting the Fire and Ghost Pokemon ready for Snagging, the Snag Machine had fully recharged, just on time. Michael tossed another Pokeball through the machine, then at the remaining XD. Before long, it was full and following the first to the PC.
The Cipher goons sighed as if they'd been expecting this outcome, then left. Michael followed them into the building at his leisure and was neither surprised nor disappointed to find them nowhere in sight. If that was all they had, they held no further interest for him.
But, apparently, this time there was somebody nearby for them to warn of his presence, because he only got in a few steps before a man in a lab coat came running toward him from the end of the hallway the other goons had vanished down and shouted "That's as far as you'll go!"
Michael snorted sardonically, but said nothing as the scientist chucked a Pokeball that unleashed a Politoed that was colored blue striped an odd off-white color, rather than green striped yellow-green. Knowing that Politoed could only be evolved from a Poliwhirl, which, on its own, meant this Politoed was already considerably stronger than the last two XDs combined, Michael felt like it would be safe enough to exploit elemental weakness, so his own Pokemon was the Electabuzz he used in the previous raid.
Michael's first order was to tell the Electabuzz to paralyze the Politoed with Thunder Wave. It was extra successful, the paralysis was in full effect when the Politoed should have been able to attack. So Michael had Electabuzz hit the Politoed with a Thunderbolt and winced as he saw how close the Politoed came to unconsciousness from the attack. The Politoed barely even maintained the force of will to execute the Shadow Rush attack the scientist told it to use, but wasn't even successful in striking its target. So the Politoed was still fairly newly-evolved.
"Snag Ball, go!" Michael shouted as he tossed a Great Ball he'd fed through the Snag Machine.
The next time, he managed to get to the end of the hall before a man dressed in a uniform made of the same material around the patch the Arcanine had on him, a similar patch over the top of the right arm of his uniform and a baseball cap of the same color as the uniform, burst out of the elevator Michael had just been about to take. They exchanged no words as the man unleashed a Zangoose with colors the same as Tipper and a Nidoking whose main body bore scales the color of maple leaves in spring and whose other scales, the ones normally white, were the color of a cloudless, sunny-day sky. Michael responded by sending Mightyena back out, backed up with a Machamp.
It took about a quarter of an hour for the Cipher goons to grind Michael's team down to the point where he had to make his escape. He went to wait by the chopper for Lucy's return. He was waiting for approximately forty-five minutes until she finally arrived with a grin on her face. "Sorry I took so long," she said. "I found a healing machine during my adventure and kept heading back to use it. The only reason they finally drove me out was because about a dozen guys ganged up on me at once and I had to vamoose."
Michael laughed and replied "Probably the same gang that tried to do the same to me. They'd have had me captured, except I brought a trump card. They waited until the five Pokemon they knew I had were exhausted, then jumped me, but then I surprised them with a sixth Pokemon. My Weezing used Smokescreen and I made my escape during the confusion." Grinning as she laughed gleefully at this, he said "Well, you're not the only one who has their clever moments."
As they climbed into the helicopter and started back toward their own lab, Lucy told Michael all about her own escape, which turned out to have been very similar to Michael's. Evidently, she let out her Umbreon and had him use Double Team to create numerous illusions, using the ensuing chaos to escape.
As they made a count of their bounty, it turned out, unsurprisingly, that Lucy had made more Snags than Michael, though not nearly as many as he'd expected. Apparently, her Pokemon were lower in level than his, because even with as long as she'd spent in the lab, she'd only Snagged a little under twice as many XDs as Michael. In total, Michael nabbed an even twenty XDs and Lucy came away with thirty-six.
When they got back to the Pokemon HQ Lab, the staff wanted to know how they were Purifying the XD Pokemon. Michael and Lucy, of course, still weren't sure they wanted to tell anyone, so they weaseled their way out of it by telling them they were still fine-tuning the process, but they'd be sure to let everyone know once they had things down pat.
After both of them had made some adjustments to their teams, they went back to the SS Libra and found Michael's previous Snags snoozing lazily around the cargo area. All except for Veronica, who, as soon as she saw they were back, zoomed over and pounced Michael to the floor.
Blinking in confusion, Michael started "Wha?"
But Veronica cut him off, lowering herself down and pressing her lips firmly to Michael's, whose eyes shot open. After a few seconds of this, and stunned silence on Lucy's part, the Raichu broke away from her trainer's lips and whispered just loud enough that Lucy could hear, too, "I was so worried about you! I thought you might have both been captured or killed or worse..."
"Shhh...." Michael whispered back soothingly, wrapping his arms around the mouse Pokemon as Lucy stepped forward to help him comfort her. "It's okay. We both made it out just fine. We're still alive and I can assure you, we're both still in one piece."
Lucy wasn't sure what had brought this sudden worry on, so she didn't know what to say. Instead, she just silently patted the Raichu's back soothingly.
After a few moments, Veronica calmed down and she sniffled one last time before saying "I'm sorry...I'm being silly...I just...Well, you two are the only humans who've ever been kind to me, so I didn't want to see you hurt..."
And now that she knew what was at the heart of the problem, Lucy knew there was nothing more that could be said to Veronica except: "Shhh, it's okay. You're NOT being silly. It's only natural that if you only have two friends, you would worry about their safety. Don't worry, though, we're tough. We'll be fine. AND we're going to help you make more friends. Allright?"
Veronica smiled and nodded. Now, at last, she was truly better. "Okay," she said. "So, um...Can...Can we have our sex, now?"
Michael groaned internally. He'd thought of an alternate means of getting the Purification started and he meant to test it out...But she just looked so hopeful, so eager, and just after her little scare about the possibility of he and Lucy being hurt, too...And it didn't help any that her voice still had that suggestive tone to it....
"Well, I guess so, if Lucy's ready for it," he conceded.
Lucy smiled softly and nodded, replying "Sure! How would you like to do this?"
"Actually," replied Veronica, "I've been thinking about it while you were away..." She leaned up and began a whispered conversation with Lucy that involved many glances over at Michael on both girls' parts and the occasional bursts of giggling, and Michael blinking confusedly all the while.
All at once, they both nodded together and turned toward him. He blinked again at the devilish grins on their faces and was just wondering if, perhaps, he should try to escape when each of them grabbed a hold of one of his arms, keeping him in place.
"Uh...what's going on, here, ladies?" he asked, but they just giggled.
Slowly, they moved him down to lay on the floor. Before he could protest, they whisked his shirt up over his head and off, tossing it aside. As Veronica held each of his arms down with one of her paws and leaned down to start nibbling lightly on his chest, bringing a light shiver from the male, Lucy moved down and began to work on his pants, starting by removing his belt, then undoing his button and zipper, and finally sliding them down his legs. Once they were off, she teased his inner thighs a bit before starting to remove his boxers.
He didn't even seem to notice when Veronica released his arms. The two girls switched places and Lucy leaned down to place her lips upon his as the Raichu's lips wrapped around the head of his shaft and sucked a few times, drawing a moan out of him.
Veronica pulled off of his shaft and began to lick all over it, instead, as Lucy's tongue slid into his mouth. He was just starting to really get into it when they both completely stopped. He groaned in frustration and they both giggled.
"Don't worry, hun," Veronica told him, "we've got something better planned..."
He blinked at her in confusion, but she said nothing, giggling a little as she crawled forward a bit.
Before he even knew it, he had a pussy hovering over each of two of his body parts, one over his mouth, and the other above his throbbing shaft. The brown fur covering the latter told him which was which and he didn't need to be told what to do. Eagerly, he pulled Lucy down to sit on his face and began to feast from her sex as he, then, began to lower the Raichu down onto his member. Both girls let out identical moans of pleasure and immediately began thrusting against the body parts entering them as they leaned forward and began to kiss passionately. From the motions of their mouths, Michael could tell they were even using tongue.
The sight of two females making out as he humped one and ate the other out made him extremely hot and before long, both of his body parts began to act fervently within them. All three of them gave moans of pleasure that were muffled by a part of one of his/her lovers' body parts as the pleasure began to build.
When Veronica's paws raised to Lucy's chest and each one began to rub and squeeze a breast, Michael's concentration on thrusting and licking wavered for a moment. It was such a hot, beautiful sight and he almost stopped completely to just watch them.
Instead, he returned to work, faster and more enthusiastically than before. When he felt his shaft rub it accidentally, he grinned and shifted to thrust so that his member was rubbing against Veronica's G-spot. With a grin at the moan this brought from the Raichu, he wrapped his lips around Lucy's clit and began to suck firmly upon it.
At last, neither female could take any more and both of them began to thrust, Lucy against Michael's face and Veronica against his cock. Moving his lips around the other human's clit so that it felt like he was nibbling on it, he reached his right hand down to find Veronica's and gripped the nub between thumb and forefinger.
Apparently, this was either Veronica's first time, or one of her first, because she suddenly screamed into the kiss as her cunny went berserk around Michael's cock, smearing it with her cum. The way her inner walls moved and pulsed around him, gripping him firmly, was an intense feeling and he moaned into Lucy's pussy in response.
Veronica looked about ready to stop, content with just one orgasm, but Michael didn't bother to. After only a few seconds, Veronica was thrusting again, apparently deciding she'd like another.
Nothing really changed after that, the same things just continued for several minutes, then suddenly, Veronica hit her second orgasm as Lucy hit one of her own. Michael wrapped his lips around Lucy's cunny so not a drop would escape and began to drink her juices down. But apparently, the gripping and squirming of Veronica's cunny was too much this time, because he suddenly shuddered and exploded into her waiting body, pouring gush after gush of his thick, hot seed into her eager cunny.
A couple hours later, the other Pokemon woke up and exchanged cheery greetings with the two trainers. For several minutes, the humans told the Pokemon their tales of adventure and excitement, then as the rest of the Pokemon went to talk amongst themselves, John approached Michael. At this point, the human told the Charizard that he was unquestioningly heterosexual. To the surprise of both humans, John was more concerned about what this would mean for his own Purification than he was about an unrequited crush.
He was just starting to really get going, muttering to himself, when Michael announced "You know, it's really not that bad. I've thought of a possible alternative, supposing we can find another like you...See, I was thinking we could use you to test my theory that that perhaps the sex doesn't have to be between a human and a Pokemon..."
Realizing exactly where Michael was going, Lucy announced "I have exactly what you're looking for!"
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Heh. Yep, I'm doing it again. Making you wait until the next chapter to find out what's up. But I'm making up for it: First off, by popular demand, I'm lowering the reviews-per-chapter requirement. I'm dropping it by two so that you'll only need to produce three each time before the next chapter comes. Secondly, I'm going to allow you folks to influence the story a little. I can't decide on a name for the Arcanine that showed up in this chapter, nor can I decide on his sexuality. So, in your reviews, if it matters to you, submit your vote as to whether he should be gay or bi, as well as any suggestions you may have as to his name.